China’s new military helicopter with innovative design makes 1st flight

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I am seeing that the need of heavy armed manned attack helicopter is losing its priority if China's UCAV programe is gaining pace in development, especially in AI mode.

Large, fast and steath unmanned fixed wing and rotor wing drones can easily take over the roles of heavy attack helicopters of current days.

I believe the out-come of vulnerability of attack helicopters to manpad and short range SAMs in Russian-Ukraine war may shape the development of future attack helicopters or rotor wing drones.

3 weeks from now in Zhuhai Airshow, we should be able to see new toys from AVICopter and other research institutions/universities. May be from there we can see clearer the future development trend of attack helicopters in China.

Good post. Forgot about Zhuhai being right around the corner.

In the critical moment, there is always a risk of overly on unmanned platforms, and risking them being downed with EW or an adversary infiltrating comm networks.

Manned unmanned team between manned fast and survivable 12 ton Ka-52 with unmanned 6 ton Z-19 would probably be a balanced approach. With the Ka-52 being close enough for line of sight datalinks; preventing dependence on satellite networks.