Center for Strategic Communication

Army Eyes Robot Rescue Copters for Wounded Troops

Blackhawk medevac helicopter. Photo: Army It’s one of the most dangerous missions on the modern battlefield — and one of the most important. Crews flying big, vulnerable and sometimes unarmed helicopters brave gunfire, bad weather and rugged terrain to...

Army Dumps All-Seeing Chopper Drone

The A160 Hummingbird chopper-drone during a test flight. Photo: Boeing This month, the Army planned to deploy to Afghanistan an unusual new drone: an unmanned eye-in-the-sky helicopter programmed to use high-tech cameras to monitor vast amounts of territory. But now...