Airbus is making a rugged tablet for helicopter crews to control a drone team while flying at high speed

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A Singaporean helicopter crew operator uses an HTeaming tablet.
The HTeaming tablet is meant to be used comfortably on the operator's lap within the cabin.

Airbus

After the reveal of Sikorsky's pilotless Black Hawk, European rival Leonardo just flew its new uncrewed helicopter design

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A green-colored helicopter in the sky that has no windows
The Royal Navy called Leonardo's Proteus a new step in British aviation history.

Royal Navy

Russia is keeping its helicopters away from Ukraine's naval drones, a special forces commander says. They were becoming 'easy targets.'

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A grey naval drone in water with two missiles on top angled upwards
Ukraine's naval drones, like the Magura V7, are equipped with missiles that have taken down Russian aircraft.

AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Tech companies want flying taxis on the battlefield

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Joby and L3Harris' VTOL
Joby Aviation and L3Harris are developing a defense-focused VTOL.

Joby Aviation

Ukraine's special ops forces say they just scored a battlefield first: taking out a Russian helicopter with a 'deep strike' drone

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A helicopter in the air above grass with trees in the foreground and backgraound and a grey sky
Helicopters like the Soviet-era Mi-8 have been key for both Russia and Ukraine, but have been very vulnerable.

YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images

A Southwest plane had to abort its landing after a near miss with a helicopter crossing its path

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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from San Diego International Airport en route to Sacramento on August 15, 2025 in San Diego, California
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737.

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Palmer Luckey's vehicle collection includes a Navy special forces boat, a Black Hawk, and a 1967 Disneyland car

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Palmer Luckey speaking at an event.
Palmer Luckey's vehicle collection includes TK and TK.

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Crashed Hudson River helicopter had no flight recorders and went down on its eighth flight of the day: NTSB

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Crashed helicopter floats in the Hudson River upside down
The helicopter crashed into the Hudson River near lower Manhattan on April 10, 2025.

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Drone-hunting helicopters are bolstering Israel and Ukraine's stretched air defenses

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An Israeli Apache AH-64 attack helicopter flies over the Mediterranean.
Helicopters are taking on some counter-drone missions in Israel and Ukraine to augment their strained air defenses. Here, an Israeli Apache AH-64 attack helicopter flies over the Mediterranean.

JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

A stolen helicopter crashed into a hotel in Australia, killing the pilot and somehow only minorly injuring 2 other people

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This frame grab taken from video footage provided by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on August 12, 2024, via AFPTV shows a piece of the helicopter lying on a roadside after a helicopter crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Cairns on August 12, 2024, killing the pilot and igniting a blaze on the building's roof.
A piece of the helicopter on a roadside in Cairns.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)/AFP via Gett

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