An retrofitted Black Hawk helicopter flew autonomously between mountains to deliver blood supplies in a simulated mission. It also picked up a simulated medical casualty
helicopter controlled entirely by a flight computer flew low and fast through a valley while making a 134-kilometre demonstration flight to deliver blood supplies.of a Black Hawk helicopter could also pick up more than one metric ton of cargo slung beneath its belly and even change flight paths to pick up a mannequin standing in for a wounded soldier. The flight demonstrations took place during an exercise in October.
“I think it’s a significant jump from the prior exercises and experiments where there was still a pilot onboard,” says A separate flight test started out with the helicopter lifting off with a metric ton of cargo attached to a 12-metre sling and flying toward a designated landing zone. During that flight, Sikorsky showed how a human operator on the ground could use a touchscreen table to command the uncrewedThe autonomous Black Hawks may steer clear of some prior controversies involving autonomous military vehicles armed with weapons.
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