nEUROn UCAV Project Rolling Down the Runway
Jan 22, 2012 15:56 EST
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Official presentation of the demonstrator; Project updates. (Jan 20/12)
In November 2005, a Forecast International report on the future UAV market saw trouble coming for the proposed 6-nation nEUROn Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) project. In the end, however, Sweden signed on and the project got rolling, with committed funding of EUR 535 million and counting. The French DGA (Délégation Générale pour l’Armement) procurement agency is acting as program executive.
The Neuron project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, Russia’s MiG SKAT, Boeing’s X-45 Phantom Ray, and the US Navy’s X-47 UCAS-D program as UCAV projects with fighter-substitution potential. This FOCUS article explains the Neuron program’s 3-fold goals, the envisioned platform, the program structure, and its schedule:
- Neuron: The Aircraft
- Neuron: The Program [updated]
- Contracts & Key Events [updated]
- Additional Readings and Sources [updated]
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