nEUROn launch

nEUROn, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) was officially presented by Charles Edelstenne, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Aviation, to the representatives of the six countries collaborating in the project (France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and Greece). The representatives of the partner countries were able to see the nEUROn for the first time. This represents a triple “first” for the aerospace industries of the countries participating in the project: the first stealth combat aircraft, the first UCAV developed through cooperation between several European countries and the first combat aircraft entirely designed and developed on a virtual platform. The nEUROn’s Roll-Out comes after five years of design, development, assembly and static testing. Very soon the first engine tests will be carried out, with plans for a maiden flight in mid 2012. Subsequently a complete flight test programme will be effected over a period of two years in France, Sweden and Italy. These tests will be for quality of flight, level of invisibility to radar (stealth), air to ground missiles fired from an internal bay, integration in a C4i environment (command, communication control, computer and intelligence) and tests of an unmanned platform in the airspace. Giuseppe Giordo, […]
nEUROn launch