Fort Eustis, VA, March 19, 2026 – The U.S. Army received the first UH-60MX Black Hawk autonomous helicopter, extensively modified to fly with or without a pilot at the controls. This next-generation «Optimally Piloted Vehicle»…
CAMP GRAYLING, Michigan. October 30, 2025 — For the first time, a U.S. soldier —not a trained aviator— planned and executed real-world operations in military exercises with the Sikorsky Optionally Piloted (OPV) Black Hawk helicopter,…
Washington, Oct. 13, 2025 — From concept to reality in 10 months, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has transformed a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter into the S-70UAS U-Hawk, a versatile autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that has…
Hesperia, California, May 1, 2025 — Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company and Rain, a leader in the emerging firetech industry, demonstrated and tested autonomous firefighting techniques on both propane and burning brush piles using Sikorsky’s optionally…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2024 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has received a $6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to install the company’s ALIAS / MATRIX™ flight autonomy system onto the U.S.…
ANAHEIM, California, February 27, 2024 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, unveiled its plan to build, test and fly a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator (HEX / VTOL) with a tilt-wing configuration. The design is…
ATLANTA, March 2023 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as…
STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 20, 2023 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, today delivered a U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk marking the 5000th helicopter from the Hawk family. The iconic aircraft will continue to support medium-lift requirements for the U.S.…
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., Nov. 2, 2022 — Sikorsky and DARPA demonstrated how a S-70 Black Hawk helicopter flying autonomously and perform cargo resupply missions and a rescue operation. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and the Defense…
Interview conducted by Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin company) The Sikorsky test pilots Bill Fell and John Groth acumulates between them more than 65 years of helicopter experience. Bill is part of Sikorsky’s efforts to advance…