This rather ordinary-looking small helicopter is Boeing's newly designed A/MH-6X, flying for the first time in September 2006--for all of about 14 minutes, with a pilot. It is a prototype of military aircraft that could be either manned or unmanned, and is based on a demonstrator that has logged 500 hours of flight time over two years. The most significant modifications in the A/MH-6X, according to Boeing, are in the cockpit avionics and electrical systems. Network-centric features (networks becoming an ever more important factor for combat systems) include Ku-band communication, digital radios, IP-addressable aircraft systems, and on-board, high-bandwidth data processing and storage.
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