France neurons stealth unmanned attack aircraft off the assembly line will compete with the United Kingdom
Date:2011-08-22Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
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France “neurons” unmanned stealth attack aircraft will be delivered off the assembly line, the French “neurons” UAVs with the UK’s “Thor” UAV compete for stealth unmanned attack aircraft flight number two, after the United States has the X-45 test flight and two kinds of X-47 unmanned stealth attack aircraft.
“neurons” machine is about 10 meters, wingspan of about 12 meters, total weight about 6000 kilograms, uses 1 “Adour” (Adour) engine, the flight speed of about Mach 0.8. The aircraft will have a low detectability, the use of flying wing, extensive use of composite materials, install two internal weapons bays to carry data relay devices, and may be equipped with a radar. Technology demonstrator first flight scheduled for early 2011, the first fire test conducted in 2012 (which may be throwing a guided bomb). The whole program will be approximately 100 fire test and 2 test.
“neurons” project led by France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Greece to participate. French Dassault Aviation is responsible for project management, system architecture design, flight control system and assembly; France, Thales is responsible for providing data relay equipment and command and control interface; Swedish Saab company Dassault to help the overall design and flight test work, and provided in the fuselage, avionics and fuel systems; Italian Alenia Aeronautica is responsible for launch/ejection system, subsystems, and electrical and airspeed in flight; European Aeronautic Defense and Space Group (EADS), Spain’s aviation manufacturing Inc. (CASA) is responsible for the wing, data links and ground stations; Greece Aerospace Industries (HAI) is responsible for providing after the fuselage, tail pipe and integrated assembly frame (integration rig); the Swiss company RUAG wind tunnel test and providing weapons launchers. Belgium also plans to participate in the project, their work may include designing a data relay satellite radio equipment.
“neurons” (NEURON) is led by France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece and Switzerland participate in the UCAV (UCAV) technology demonstration project, currently in concept definition and feasibility study stage , demonstrator first flight scheduled for 2011.
as the project’s main contractor, Dassault Aviation of France in this European Sartori (Eurosatory) Defense Exhibition detailing the project’s goals and challenges. The company said, “neuron” project’s primary goal is the main European countries (excluding Russia) has no manned fighter development project in the case, meet the future needs of the aviation development of key technologies, the ability to compete with the United States and maintain a skilled workforce. To this end, the French half of the project work assigned to some other participating countries. Secondly, the project will develop a network of forces as part of the implementation of air – ground combat missions in low-observable UCAV technology demonstrator, it can make use of an internal bomb bay projection precision-guided weapons.
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