Author: Michael

Is it the start of Skynet? Maybe. On August 20, 2025, the Army awarded Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, a $43 million contract for modernization engineering efforts on the Black Hawk helicopter.
Specifically, the aircraft will be upgraded with a digital backbone that will allow the integration of unmanned aerial systems and future augmentation with AI.
Entering service with the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade in 1979, the UH-60 Black Hawk was one of the “Big Five” weapon systems designed to modernize the Army in the wake of the Vietnam War.

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