Saturday, August 20, 2011

AH-6 Little Bird Light Attack Helicopter

AH-6 Little Bird Light Attack HelicopterAH-6 Little Bird Light Attack Helicopter

Flown by the operators from the SOAR 'Nightstalkers', the US Army's Special Operations helicopter unit, the AH-6 'Little Bird' attack helicopter designed to support Special Operations.



Based around MD-500 / MD-530F helicopters, the AH-6J is fitted with GPS/inertial navigation systems and a FLIR (Forward Infrared) camera.



A range of weapons systems to Bird's hardpoints, gatling guns, FFAR rocket pods, grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles. common loadout is 2x gun pods (.50 cal or .62mm gatlings) x FFAR rocket pods.

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