The Texas DPS helicopters will have technology that allows them to pinpoint unauthorized drones and their operators in an effort to increase safety.

Ukrainian special forces have launched a counter-offensive in Pokrovsk, using US-made Black Hawk helicopters. The goal of the operation was to reopen supply lines in the besieged city, which has held out for more than a year against a Russian offensive but now appears on the brink of capture.

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky is blurring the line between helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft with its new Nomad family of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) that combine the versatility of a helicopter with the speed and endurance of a fixed-wing aircraft.

It took less than an hour for a National Guard soldier with no past aviation experience to train to remotely fly a Black Hawk helicopter.

The incident adds to a growing list of similar “friendly fire” losses suffered by Moscow’s forces since the start of the war in Ukraine. Mistaken for a drone According to the channels Z Fighterbomber,

Using the firm’s new ‘Cooperative Lift’ technology, four of the company’s Callisto 50 multi-rotor drones – which can each carry 26kg of weight and include eight propellers so they keep aloft if one or two fail – can work together to move the equivalent of five bags of concrete at once.

Adapting “loyal wingman” drones to helicopters is a fundamentally different challenge than adopting them to planes, as helicopters are far slower and operate at significantly lower altitudes.

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