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One of the most advanced UAV systems in the world, the 'K-MAX' helicopter offers new dimensions to the modern-day battlefield or emergency theatre. First validated for the US Army in 2010 the K-MAX has lifted over 3.5 million pounds whilst on missions in Afghanistan - equivalent to 300 7-tonne trucks, 300 security vehicles and 30,000 man-hours.
The innovation has been with the intermeshing main rotor blades and absence of a tail rotor, providing a 1:1 lift ratio. With a robust unmanned control system the K-MAX is able to deliver to a GPS waypoint to drop loads and has a 'hot hookup' for collection and can be fully integrated across all military assets, with obvious applications for fire fighting and humanitarian aid missions.
The K-MAX is being designed to operate with an agnostic capability and on an agnostic platform, using 3D topography for autonomous landing point selection, static and dynamic (moving) obstacle avoidance and Drop Zone selection. Imagery is sent via Ka and Ku bands via BLOS with the unique capability to transmit HD video through the rotors allowing the Antenna to be beneath the rotors. With a USD$1,400 per hour to fly and a near matching maintenance, man-hour per flight ratio of 1:3 the cost and safety advantages of the K-MAX are impressive.
Filmed, edited and produced by Chris Cubbage, Executive Editor, My Security Media for the Asia Pacific Security Magazine
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Whoever came up with that rotor system was definitely thinking outside the box. I wonder how many people told the poor guy he was nuts!
*A brilliant German engineer named Anton Flettner... a true genius, he created the world first series production helicopters for the Luftwaffe ( Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri) and later became chief engineer at Kaman Aircraft.*
The servo flaps idea was invented by Charles Kaman while he was working for Sikorski. He was told they didn't need another inventor at the company so he left and started his own company.
not a genius in the practical sense he made a chopper that could chop your head off. Why don't you think the soviets didn't copy it?
Really interesting design. I have always like the dual rotor/coaxial rotor helicopters, like the KA-32. If I had the opportunity, I'd ask the designer why they have a tail boom extending beyond the rotor discs when no tail rotor is necessary. If you removed that boom and ended the helicopter at the stabilizers just ahead of that, you'd save even more weight and be able to fit into tighter spaces (like the KA-32). Also, is it me or does it seem quite a bit quieter than other helicopters? I'm fascinated by the flaps on the rotors. Amazing machine. They've obviously trimmed it down to bare fuselage minimums, thus the shape, but if you put a more bulbous fuselage on there you'd have copious amounts of room for passengers or internal cargo, or put pylons on it and call it a gunship!! So many possibilities!!
The tailboom is a counter weight for the front end of it, (the cockpit)
Co axials are too slow for a gunship role and have issues in strong winds. Great for sling loads, and firefighting. Search an rescue would need a much bigger fuselage.
And the tail booms vertical stabs give the helicopter stability in forward flight also i believe the small rudder on the vertical stab moves with the yaw pedals
@@Einwetok Yes correct this relatively small helicopter can sling 6000 lbs
@@jdhiner1 Reminds me of an A4. Could haul it's own weight in bombs.
Fantastico elicottero, una meraviglia tecnologica.
even seven years on it looks so futuristic ..
Mid to late 1930s German technology. I logged, fought fire and built power line in these before I retired. It's very capable but no fun at all to fly.
@@waynearrington6727 good grief , they look like they should be a real hoot , like those Kamov 28 things ,, but its still a better job than digging holes in the road ,,,
the original helicopter with this system was the h43 the airforce used it for fighting aircraft crash fires and rescue. after its service companies discovered its heavy lift capability for its size the Kmax was designed to use the heavy lift capability but got rid of about 70% of the fuselage
It is a modern Nazi Kolibri, with the FLETTNER FL 282 KOLIBRI elevation system, invented by Anton Flettner, a German engineer and inventor born in 1885. There is a predecessor post of this Lockheed on my channel ;)
The Germans designed so much of today military equipment like the flying wing concept. This coaxial helicopter. the V2 rocket, the blue prints and concept of the nuclear bomb and so much more. It makes me uneasy now that there military is free from restrictions again after 2022.
Fantástico.
How do you approach this egg beater? is it safe to approach it from the front?
From the rear is good, too, just like with the H-43 from which it was derived.
This helicopter and sistem very beautiful is amazing...
When the rotors first start spinning you think this is not going to work.
this is close to dune ornithopter..so cool
a twin engine intermeshing triblade would be an interesting variant😉
Easy doable in 4D space.
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Why do people question if this is Lockheed? Ever heard of companies buying the rights to make a machine before? Good grief.
By the way, is this at Dobbins GA? Looks familiar
+Evil Bastard Wrong, Lockheed would become a licensee
Kaman Corp. K-Max is not Lockheed. This helicopter is owned by Lockheed for the program described above. Kaman designed and built the helicopter.
Looks like a Dragon Fly ?
The first time my wife saw one in flight, thats what she said and I agree ,but as it turns out ,Sikorsky Aircraft H-5 was called the "Dragon Fly" bur I think the name fits this machine better
I was amazed that it only has one seat.i would think they would make two seater for instruction
Kaman has two flying models of this crafts predecessor , the HH-43 Huskie at their factory
which they use for training pilots to solo in the K-Max
Thank You Kaman & USSR for creating this marvelous technology.
The USSR? The German engineer behind the design at Kaman was brought to the US from Nazi-Germany after WWII. Anton Flettner. See Flettner FI 265 and 282.
The USSR had nothing to do with this
You're confusing Kaman with the intermeshing rotor system of german inventor Anton Flettner with the coaxial design of the Russian Kamov company
No love for the upcoming CH53K?
@usmc7242 hoorah
I really want to fly one of these... Any offers from a user?
ik04
Qualifications ? ...
@@fjb4932 ATP helicopter and Airplane, 11,000 hrs Total 7500 PIC & Instructor. Extensive external load and long line experience in CH-47...
Certified to the max !
From FAA Registration2001 KAMAN AEROSPACE CORP K-1200 Rotorcraft
(1 seats / 1 engine) Owner LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP
OWEGO, NY, US
(Corporation)
How to synchropters are rotate around its axis?
How does the torque appears?
Oh! I see. No torque. It's just rudder and airflow )
It is yawed by a combination of differential torque (by increasing pitch on one rotor and decreasing it on the other), and tilting the rotors slightly in opposite directions.
Design these with ducted rotor's that pivot and design a very different aircraft. Be neat to see platform's lift off a ship and land on a beach and pick up large groups of people. Then land back on the ship they were launched from.
I think that there might be a TH-cam video of a Flettner (the original syncropter layout) landing and taking off from a ship. But look for Flettner anyway
200 gal and can only fly for 2 hrs..not good
Flying blender
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