A version of this article appears in the August 11/18 double issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.

The joint European Neuron UCAV demonstrator will conduct its first weapon drops in 2015 at a range in Sweden. Credit: Dassault Aviation

New low-observable technologies, a highly reliable turbofan engine and multifunction radar are among the technologies that could be destined for an Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) in the 2030s.
A two-year feasibility study, signed by defense ministers from the two countries at the Farnborough air show last month, could mark the return to an era of close cooperation between the British and French aerospace industries not seen since the development of the Concorde in the 1960s.