The American military has always been at the center of technological innovation, and its role in this tends to increase in importance whenever a major conflict takes place in this world. Even if not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky demonstrates the flight capabilities of its rotor blown wing unmanned aircraft system at its facility ...

Sikorsky has advanced to the next phase of a DARPA project to develop an unmanned VTOL aircraft capable of flying all-weather missions from ships or land. The rotor blown wing VTOL tail-sitter is ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown wing’ uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in both helicopter and ...

The Rotor Blown Wing is a hybrid-electric, fully autonomous flying wing aircraft. Credit: Sikorsky STRATFORD, Connecticut–Sikorsky has successfully completed its first series of flight tests with its ...

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has successfully flown an electric-powered, 115-lb (52-kg) autonomous drone that uses what it calls a "rotor blown wing" to fly like both a helicopter and an ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has unveiled its new Nomad family of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, less than a year after proving the flight efficiency and reliability of its ...

Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing is a hybrid-electric flying wing with semi-articulated rotors for control in hover. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky is getting a second chance to build an advanced rotorcraft for ...

Sikorsky has successfully completed vertical-to-forward flight transitions of its autonomous rotor-blown-wing demonstrator, an all-electric aircraft the company is using to better understand the ...

About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less ...

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has successfully completed tests on an unmanned aerial system (UAS) with a rotor-blown wing, capable of operating in both helicopter and airplane modes. The ...

The Nomad VTOL UAS family, shown in a rendering, is envisioned for various sea and land-based missions. (Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company) Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary is developing a ...