US Army testing optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter.

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    "excerpt": "US Army testing optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter.\n\nMarch 26, 2026\n\nIn addition to its \"MATRIX\" automated pilot, the new Black Hawks will have improved controls, including a complete fly-by-wire system.\n\nThe United States Army is now testing an \"extensively modified\" variant of the famed Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk medium-lift utility helicopter. The H-60Mx was developed as part of the Army's next-generation \"Optimally Piloted Vehicle\" (OPV), meaning it is an optionally manned aircraft that can fly without a human pilot in the cockpit.\n\nThe aircraft was delivered to the service earlier this month at Fort Eustis, Virginia, where it is now entering \"a rigorous testing phase.\"\n\nAbout DARPA's \"MATRIX\" and \"ALIAS\" Programs.\n\nSikorsky, a subsidiary of aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the new unmanned version, aiming to produce an aircraft that could reliably perform internal and external cargo resupply missions and rescue operations. The US military has struggled with a pilot shortage in recent years, and unmanned aircraft could be part of the solution.\n\n\"The technology at the heart of this helicopter originated from the DARPA Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, which began over ten years ago,\" the US Army wrote in a media statement.\n\nALIAS was founded to develop a \"removable...",
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