Future High Speed Helicopter and next generation rotorcraft
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An academic study on a stealthy helicopter design concept, which looks like the cancelled Comanche. Posted by @鎏鎏岁月 on Weibo.
On October 11, in Wuhu Aviation Industrial Park, the world's first 6-ton tilt-rotor aircraft rolled off the assembly line in the Wuhu United Aircraft Production Workshop. This tilt-rotor aircraft, code-named Lanying R6000, is the world's most advanced aviation-grade drone.
It supports unmanned and manned flights, and can achieve international-level long-distance point-to-point flights. Lanying R6000 has a maximum take-off weight of 6 tons and a maximum commercial load weight of 2 tons. It can carry up to 10 passengers, has a maximum range of 4,000 kilometers, a maximum cruising speed of 550 kilometers per hour, and a maximum cruising altitude of 7,620 meters.
I'm very pleasantly surprised that it looks like they've produced an actual prototype.
R6000 tiltrotor UAV/Aircraft..
Looks like the rotors fold, which along with the already known rotating of the main wing, means this thing can be quite easily adapted for naval use from a structural pov.
Almost as if it was really designed for naval use from the outset.
Which is surprising in itself, as it shows a degree of foresight and planning ahead and willingness to frontline on the additional risk and complexity of making it foldable.
Well, it's not properly sized for a utility tilt rotor, but we do know they have a manned variant considered. Not impossible considering its weight class. Its MTOW is 6.1t per the manufacturer, which is a bit lighter than the AW609 manned tilt rotor transport but still in the same weight class.
For the R6000, a manned version would not be the equivalent to say, V-280, but rather the equivalent to a lighter tilt rotor like AW609. It could still have civil and even some military applications.