Dassault Aviation last week officially rolled out the nEUROn, European UCAV technology demonstrator, to the six participating countries. The six-nation Neuron European unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator industrial team includes Saab (Sweden), Alenia Aermacchi (Italy), EADS-CASA (Spain), HAI (Greece) and RUAG (Switzerland).
The first flight of the nEUROn, which was officially launched in 2003, is planned for mid-2012, in Istres, France, according to Dassault, followed by a two-year flight-test program in France, Italy and Sweden. These tests will address flight qualities, stealthiness, air-to-ground weapon firing from an internal bay, integration into a C4i environment as well as the insertion of uninhabited platform in airspace. Foto: Dassault
The first flight of the nEUROn, which was officially launched in 2003, is planned for mid-2012, in Istres, France, according to Dassault, followed by a two-year flight-test program in France, Italy and Sweden. These tests will address flight qualities, stealthiness, air-to-ground weapon firing from an internal bay, integration into a C4i environment as well as the insertion of uninhabited platform in airspace. Foto: Dassault