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Airbus Helicopters H145 | Airframer | Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc.

10/06/2026News:
Airbus sees future roles for the U145 spanning logistics, firefighting, surveillance and drone mothership operations.

Airbus unveils autonomous helicopter derived from H145

The uncrewed platform combines a proven helicopter design with autonomous technology and has its first flight planned later this year.

21/08/2025News:
The MQ-72C’s autonomy will be gradually scaled through more flight demonstrations.

Airbus U.S. and Shield AI achieve milestone autonomous helicopter test

Working with Shield AI’s Hivemind software, Airbus U.S. tested mission autonomy on an H145 in preparation for Marine Corps logistics operations.

14/05/2025Press Release:
Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and L3Harris Technologies announced a teaming agreement to incorporate L3Harris’ proven platform system integration capabilities on the Airbus MQ-72C Logistics Connector, an unmanned variant of the UH-72 Lakota helicopter.		L3Harris and Airbus US partner on systems integration for unmanned Aerial Logistics Connector
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