A regular soldier has flown a remote-control Black Hawk helicopter after less than an hour’s training. A U.S. Army National Guard Sergeant First Class became the first soldier to independently plan, ...

The U.S. Army has taken a major step toward autonomous aviation after receiving its first Black Hawk helicopter capable of flying with or without a pilot onboard, the War Department has announced. The ...

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. Sikorsky has announced a new demonstration of the ...

The Army this week accepted its first optionally piloted Black Hawk helicopter, a modified version of Sikorsky’s workhorse utility chopper that can be flown by pilots in the cockpit or by troops on ...

The continuous evolution of autonomous systems has brought us to a point where the skies of the world will no longer be populated by pilotless drones, but also by full-blown aircraft that need no ...

The learning curve that gets people from being completely out of the loop to being skilled drone operators is pretty smooth, and we all get a sense of that when learning about the exploits of soldiers ...