DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters

The US military is betting the Black Hawk helicopter of the future won't need pilots, and it's giving the bird's maker Sikorsky $6 million to prove it.  Sikorsky parent company Lockheed Martin said yesterday that it had been awarded $6M by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to outfit an experimental fly-by- …

[Neil Barnes]

to order an autonomous resupply dropoff

There might only be one, but surely that's enough to get a pizza delivered?

[Like a badger]

ALIAS?

What is about the US and utterly crap backronyms?

[Francis Boyle]

You've gotta

admire their commitment to a bit (if not their consistency) in using "400 units of real and simulated blood."

[M7S]

Meanwhile in the UK some MoD accountant is trying to work out if it could be shown to be cheaper than training pilots, with the potential for “second career” options with the appropriate contractor to supplement the gold plated pension.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/17/britain-security-armed-forces-helicopter-training-crisis/