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Originally Posted by Llarry
The H-6 lives on in greatly improved SpecOps guise with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The current versions are the MH-6M and AH-6M with 6 rotor blades, etc. These are known as "Little Birds".
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The "Little Bird" or "Killer Egg" monikers were already in use way back then.
The H-6 and subsequent versions did have a six blade main rotor and a "scissor" four blade tailreducing acoustic noise and suppress high-frequency vibrations by using uneven blade spacing instead of a standard 90-degree cross
. It also used an Allison sourced engine and kept the egg shape canopy.