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nEUROn goes naval – UCAV demonstrator flight tested alongside French Navy Aircraft Carrier.
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The Dassault nEUROn is an experimental unmanned combat aerial
vehicle (UCAV) being developed with international cooperation, led by
the French company Dassault Aviation. Picture: Dassault Aviation |
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The
nEUROn development is a joint programme involving France (Dassault), Italy
(Alenia) Greece (HAI), Sweden (Saab), Spain (former EADS-CASA) and Switzerland
(RUAG). It was launched in 2003 and started its materialization in 2005,
after the members of consortium signed the funding agreement. The first flight took place on 1 December 2012, at Istres Air Base in France. Low observability and electro-optical performance tests had been completed by mid-2015. The next step will be to undertake a series of low observability and weapon delivery trials in Sweden. This project heralds the next generation of combat aircraft, manned or unmanned, with the ambition to preserve European autonomy in this area. In this construction of the future, the French Navy wanted a study on the ability of combat drones to evolve in the sea and air domains and subsequently study their implementation from surface vessels. |
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