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 ...

In less than an hour of training, a US Army National Guard sergeant first class became the first soldier to independently ...

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.

A U.S. soldier was put in charge of planning and executing missions with the Optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter instead of a trained aviator.

Pokrovsk is the latest in a string of grueling urban battles between Ukraine and Russia since the start of the war and bears ...

THIS is the moment Ukraine’s special forces launched a daring air assault from a helicopter in a desperate bid to slow Russia ...

Sikorsky’s newest helicopter is an unmanned version of its UH-60L Black Hawk, stripped of its cockpit to carry more cargo and keep aircrew out of harm’s way. Company officials hope the U.S. and other ...

The Pentagon’s DOGE unit is leading a plan to acquire 30,000 small, low-cost drones as the U.S. military shifts toward rapid, ...

He became the first to independently plan, command and execute one of the missions using the system’s handheld tablet.

In a training first, an Army National Guardsman used a tablet to control Sikorsky's optionally piloted Black Hawk and plan ...

Years after testing a Black Hawk helicopter with no pilot, Sikorsky has unveiled the U-Hawk — a cargo drone that swaps out the cockpit for "clamshell" doors that swing wide to load cargo, and military ...