May 24, 2021
Could the U.S. Military's V-280 Helicopter Become Fully Autonomous?
A real life transformer.
by Sebastien Roblin
Here's What You Need to Know: Unmanned capability may increasingly become a standard feature in platforms that aren’t even primarily intended for use as drones.
In December 2019, Bell had its V-280 Valor tilt rotor demonstrator aircraft perform an entire test mission drive driven according to computer algorithms—almost without any human inputs.
To be exact, the V-280’s software individually performed all of the tasks that might be expected of it in a routine non-combat mission without human input, but a human operator was onboard and the helicopter during the transitions between each tasks. Those tasks include:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/could-us-militarys-v-280-helicopter-become-fully-autonomous-185967
