US Army teams autonomous Black Hawk with drones in air assault experiments

SIkorsky UH-60A retrofitted with ALIAS and fly-by-wire controls making first flight under human pilotage c Sikorsky

Source: US Army

The service is exploring how automated flight technologies, developed by DARPA, might allow its utility helicopters to fly faster, further and lower to the ground – or even without any human pilots in the cockpit at all.

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