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DID’s FOCUS articles offer in-depth, updated looks at significant military programs of record. In November 2005, DID noted a Forecast International report on the future UAV market that forecast trouble for the proposed six-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 procurement agency is acting as program executive.

The Neuron project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, Russia’s MiG SKAT, and the US Navy’s X-47 UCAS-D program as UCAV projects with fighter-substitution potential. The Neuron program’s goals are threefold, and DID also offers details concerning the envisioned platform, the program structure, and its schedule. The 6-nation UCAV effort has just hit a milestone, via the first machining of parts….

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