Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Unmanned Black Hawk helicopter to be developed

HARTFORD, Conn. - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. is launching a $1billion venture featuring a pilot-less Black Hawk helicopter asmilitary demand rises for technology to fight two wars.

The Stratford-based helicopter maker and military contractorannounced Monday the creation of Sikorsky Innovations, intended tospeed the transformation of the mechanical helicopter into acomputerized aircraft.

It also will promote projects that are now designing helicoptersto fly faster, simulate vision and monitor their own performance.

The Black Hawk is a military workhorse, used in Afghanistan,Iraq, Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989 and the Gulf War in 1991. It'salso part of military …

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