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The future of Air Combat

You will find on this site NEWS regarding unmanned Airplanes. The future of Air- Combat

unmanned planes

NEURON

For the coming twenty years, the European combat aircraft industry will face three main challenges:the need to develop strategic technologies,the necessity to uphold skills of excellences in areas in which the European industry has gained technical competences and fields of excellence,the goal to provide workload to the European design offices.Facing such a situation, the French government took the initiative by launching in 2003 a project for a technological demonstrator of an “Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle” (UCAV), elaborated in the frame of a European cooperation scheme.The aim of the nEUROn demonstrator is to provide the Europeandesign offices with a project allowing them to develop know-how and to maintain their technological capabilities in the coming years.This project goes far beyond the theoretical studies that have been conducted until now, as it plans the building and the flight demonstration of an unmanned aircraft more...

 

RAFALE Multirole

Fighter

When the RAFALE programme was launched, the French Air Force and French Navy published a joint requirement for an omnirole aircraft that would have to replace the seven types of combat aircraft then in operation. The new aircraft would have to be able to carry out a very wide range of missions:Air-defence / air-superiority,Reconnaissance,Close air support,Air-to-ground precision strike / interdiction,Anti-ship attacks,Nuclear deterrence,buddy-buddy refuelling.These requirements were taken into account from the start of the RAFALE’s development, leading engineers to invent an aircraft which goes beyond the needs of each type of mission.Versatile and best in all categories of missions, theRAFALE is a true “Force Multiplier”.The RAFALE has exhibited a remarkable survivability rate during the latest French Air Force and Navy operations, thanks to an optimized airframe and to a wide range of smart and discretesensors. It is slated to be the French armed forces prime combat aircraft until 2040 at least. more...

 

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