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Airbus U.S. demonstrates remote control handover for unmanned UH-72 in Marine Corps logistics program
Airbus US Space & Defense demonstrated transfer of control of an unmanned UH-72 Logistics Connector to operators more than 20 kilometres from the primary test team during trials in Grand Prairie, Texas. The remote team used a man-portable tablet to command autonomous behaviours before handing control back to the main ground station. Conducted with Shield AI, L3Harris and Parry Labs, the seventh flight-test event also evaluated takeoff and landing precision, beyond-line-of-sight connectivity and thermal-management changes. The UH-72 Lakota derivative remains a prototype under the Marine Corps' Aerial Logistics Connector programme, intended for operational demonstrations of distributed resupply.