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

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.

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

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire ...

Sikorsky introduced a new unmanned helicopter prototype this week that transforms the design of the Army’s 50-year-old Black Hawk into, well, something more like a Transformer. Any soldier who has ...

The four soldiers who were aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that went down near Summit Lake in Thurston County on Wednesday night likely died in the crash, the Army said Friday. Recovery efforts ...