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The US Army Wants “Loyal Wingmen” Drones for Its Helicopters
Adapting “loyal wingman” drones to helicopters is a fundamentally different challenge than adopting them to planes, as helicopters are far slower and operate at significantly lower altitudes.
Texas DPS is the first U.S. agency to equip helicopters with drone detection technology. The system, called ACUS, detects unauthorized drones to boost safety during DPS missions. It’s unclear when all ...
Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said, marking a significant step for the defense tech company's drone ambitions.
The Nomad family of drones will be based off the novel rotor blown wing VTOL UAS which Sikorsky has been developing and testing. Sikorsky has announced a new family of long-endurance, ...
In a move that could reshape battlefield tactics the UK military has begun testing FPV drones deployed directly from Chinook helicopters The system could offer rapid air to ground coordination unlike ...
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 ...
There was a time when the words “Black Hawk Down” meant tragedy. From now on, they might mean no crew on board. Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky division has taken the legendary UH-60L Black Hawk, stripped ...
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing the model’s (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) viral image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens. On Android, there’s ...
Russia said last week that it carried out an attack on Ukrainian trucks carrying long-range drones. Ukraine pushed back on this and said the strikes targeted civilian trucks moving grain. A satellite ...
Ukraine will form new helicopter units to shoot down exploding Russian drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this week, as Kyiv looks to aircraft for support in defending the skies. "We ...
The MH-139A, slated to replace the older UH-1N Hueys in the nuclear security mission, recently conducted its first search and rescue mission. Boeing announced on Oct. 8, 2025 a new $173 million ...
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