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Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a ...

The Blackhawk Helicopter Now Has An Autonomous Clone - Here's What We Know About The Aircraft

While Blackhawk helicopters have lingered in modern military cavalries for decades, this new iteration doesn't require a ...
Task & Purpose

This wild new Black Hawk prototype is part drone, part Transformer

Sikorsky introduced a new unmanned helicopter prototype this week that transforms the design of the Army’s 50-year-old Black Hawk into, well, something more like a Transformer. Any soldier who has ...
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See it: a new autonomous Black Hawk helicopter called 'U-Hawk'

The iconic Black Hawk helicopter made by Sikorsky is getting a high-tech upgrade after a fully autonomous, uncrewed variant known as the U-Hawk was revealed this week. The U-Hawk helicopter went from ...
Stars and Stripes

Soldier flies drone Black Hawk from tablet in training first for optionally piloted helicopter

It took less than an hour for a National Guard soldier with no past aviation experience to train to remotely fly a Black Hawk helicopter.