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Old 23rd November 2018 | 13:21
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Back in 1996, Sikorsky did a demo at Ft Benning with the Cypher UAV. They trained a couple of MPs for about 45 minutes, and proceeded to fly a bunch of demos at their MOUT site. Precision drops, reconnaissance, auto takeoffs and landings. Way ahead of its time. Sikorsky seems to have forgotten about the original autonomy team.

Edit: the Igor mentioned in the article was a Linux guy - no worries about windows!
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