Sikorsky transformed a Black Hawk helicopter into an unmanned aircraft system.

Soldiers can control the new U-Hawk, or S-70UAS with a tablet and the aircraft’s MATRIX autonomous system generates the flight plan and navigation. The company envisions the helicopter, which has eliminated the cockpit area, to be used for sustainment missions with the extra space or be part of maneuver operations by carrying swarms of drones. The new design features clamshell doors and ramp where combat vehicles could be rolled on and off, in place of a forward cockpit.

The new aircraft was announced and shown off Monday at the Association of the U.S Army annual conference in Washington D.C.

“You could imagine this aircraft conducting collaborative combat aircraft operations as a loyal wing man with a crewed

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