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Iroquois lined up for autonomous capability

25th November 2015 - 16:06 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in London

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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has selected the UH-1H Iroquois as the platform for Phase 3 of the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility system (AACUS) programme.

Original plans envisaged the autonomous system being added to a UH-60A Rascal but the helicopter was not available for use at the time. Other platforms considered included the Sikorsky CH-53 and Bell/Boeing MV-22 to meet any heavy-lift capability.

‘We briefly considered these aircraft but the cost was just too high and we could not get access to the aircraft,’ Max Snell, AACUS programme manager told Shephard.

Working with the ONR, Aurora Flight Sciences can now

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