Autonomous Black Hawk completes first flight with nobody aboard
A UH-60A Black Hawk equipped with Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy completed the first uninhabited flight under DARPA's ALIAS program, handling preflight, takeoff, mission flight, simulated failures, and landing autonomously.
TOWARD DOOM59confidence 97/100
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A full-size military helicopter completed a real flight with nobody aboard while autonomously managing the flight sequence and simulated contingencies. Later transition of the technology to the US Army verifies practical downstream impact beyond the demonstration.
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- R1Toward 59 · confidence 97
New February 2022 consequential physical-autonomy milestone with later operational transition evidence.
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