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Defense Department completes first unmanned Black Hawk helicopter flight

By Mike Brest
Published February 17, 2022 4:24pm ET
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Defense Department completes first unmanned Black Hawk helicopter flight
A Black Hawk helicopter takes off in Arizona. | (Image from Customs and Border Protection)

The Department of Defense completed a test flight for an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter earlier this month.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency used the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program and retrofitted the UH-60A Black Hawk Helicopter with Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy technologies that allowed the uninhabited chopper to fly for half an hour without a pilot.

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