Airbus Helicopters Ocelot UAH 1/72

[Captain Canada]

Maybe slow going, but she's going great ! Still love the lines....and all those lumps and bumps !

[piko1]

i think its ready for her duty thoughts ?

[Spey_Phantom]

looks excellent 

[piko1]

thanks 

[NARSES2]

Definitely looks a winner 

[Captain Canada]

How are the pilots supposed to see when the canopy is completely painted over ?



Looks great. I think it needs some dirt or panel lines or something tho, just to break it up. Otherwise it looks awesome !

[McColm]

It's a drone, the pilots are on the ground

[Captain Canada]

How do you know when you can't see through the glass to tell ?



And I changed my mind about dirt or panel lines....I think it looks just about right ! I'd also say it would look better in 'real' life, as the photos kinda wash it out.

[PR19_Kit]

How do you know when you can't see through the glass to tell ?

Because it says so in the very first line of the thread....

Airbus Helicopters Ocelot UAH ( Unmanned Autonomous Helicopter ) is based on

[piko1]

ok here go's the story


in Early 2013 Airbus Helicopters, Boeing, Northrop Grumman,  Bell and Sikorsky received top secret US army requirements for the next Generation unmanned autonomous multi-purpose  helicopter the projects were required to use existing airframe eventually the project  was separated in two different programs multi-purpose and pure Attack helicopter the contract for the first was won by Airbus Helicopters America and the second resurrected
the Comanche but i will tell you the full story of this Phoenix like resurrection another time


They will replace us all ... some day


Ocelot is Unmanned but in different way no one controls the helicopter yes the human interaction was removed that was the idea in the first place
if we ask  Jody William ( Nobel prize for peace laureate ) she will insist that this is a killer drone and in a seance she will be right we have the technology all ready to make the Ocelot a reality the missing piece to complete the puzzle was the Artificial intelligence ( AI )
in late 2012 IBM made a breakthrough that changes all this the DARPA / US army founded black project used IBM DeepQA project as starting
point and thousands hours of recorded data from the OH-58D and AH-64 flight's there were some unique problems that the developers needed to
solve and they did it and that's how the first  self aware AI was born in a sense The only negative side of using this AI was that every unite have its own personality who would thought that a several bits of stolen Soviet code from a missile can lead
to the creation of something so beautiful and deadly at a same time

the Bulgarian Air Force link

in 2014 the Bulgarian Army was near extinction so in deep secrecy the Ministry of Defence approached Airbus and the US Army for help preserving Bulgaria defence capability Ocelot was one of the projects of the most massive rearmament program after WWII Bulgaria ended up with order for 60 ( plus 20 optional ) brand new Ocelots stationed all over Bulgaria territory they were involved in all sorts of missions from border patrol, rapid response in case of natural disasters to anti-tank and anti-submarine warfare Ocelots were greeted with particular skepticism by the Bulgarian Army and  hatred by the Bulgarian pilots and the public at first but that was soon to be changed in the night of 24 march 2016 a Magnitude 8.6 earthquake devastated the north part of the country the Ocelot's were among the first on site for Assessment of the situation and helping rescue teams  finding people under the ruins of the Svishtov city day and night the first nickname of the Machines come from a Euronews report in which a mid aged woman  called the helicopter Gray Angel the Technicians that take care of the Ocelots call them Kit-Kat's

Tail Number 448

is the 48 machine of the initial deliverе from 5rd Squadron of  Stara Zagora Air Base Elena or Eli for short as she introduces herself or the Pink Kitty as the Technicians call her for her strange habit  of purring when she is undergoing maintenance and her favorite color Pink she is the Hotshot of the squad from her recent AMA on Reddit we know that she is fan of the science fiction her favorite movies are short circuit 1 and 2
star trek first contact and Star Wars her favorite actors are  Patrick Stewart , LeVar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, and Angelina Jolie her favorite author is Isaac Asimov she often plays video games when she is off duty her favorite game is legue of legends the champions she likes most is Vi the Piltover Enforcer and Lee Sin the Blind Monk she is fan of Cruzerthebruzer and in the end she loves to make pranks on the army system administrators