Lockheed Martin: Autonomous Black Hawk against fires – 11/12/2024 at 4:32 p.m.

(CercleFinance.com) – Lockheed Martin announces that its subsidiary Sikorsky, and Rain, a specialist in autonomous firefighting technology, have demonstrated the effectiveness of an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter capable of detecting a fire and dropping fire. water precisely to turn it off.

This demonstration, conducted October 29 at Sikorsky headquarters, integrated Sikorsky's MATRIX flight autonomy and Rain's autonomous mission system.

Representatives from organizations such as NASA and FEMA attended the demonstration, highlighting the interest in this technology to prevent and fight wildfires.