Sikorsky and Rain Successfully Demonstrate Wildfire Mission Autonomy Written 27 November 2024
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An autonomous Black Hawk helicopter demonstrates an aerial water drop. | Credit: Lockheed Martin; Courtesy of Rain
Unmanned Systems Technology reports, “Sikorsky and Rain have successfully demonstrated how an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter can be commanded to take off, identify the location and size of a small fire, and then accurately drop water to suppress the flames. Carried out on October 29 at Sikorsky headquarters in Stratford, the Rapid Wildfire Response Demonstration showed the effective fusion of Sikorsky’s MATRIX flight autonomy with Rain’s wildfire mission autonomy system to suppress a fire in its incipient stage using this innovative firefighting UAV.”
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