The Army unveiled the Cheyenne II name at its annual aviation conference, reviving a designation from a scrapped 1960s attack helicopter program.

As the Army looks to cut 6,000 pilots and aviation crew, the Chinook is the second current Army helicopter modified to fly without a pilot.

The presence of military personnel and aircraft in downtown Mobile might have some looking twice at the unusual site. The city announced Friday that units from the United States Marine Corps are conducting military training exercises with local partners.

NASHVILLE—The Army thinks its Apache helicopters, developed a half-century ago to kill Soviet tanks, might offer a solution to enemy drones two or three orders of magnitude smaller. “Everybody here is familiar with the JIATF-401”—the Pentagon’s counterdrone task force—and how much energy the Department of War is putting against counter-unmanned aerial systems,