Europe’s major UAS programmes will proceed, Airbus proclaims
Germany’s ill-fated Euro Hawk programme is still alive and Europe’s MALE 2020 project continues at a slow but steady pace, according to officials at Airbus Defence & Space.
Senior VP and head of UAS at Airbus, Jens Nielsen, confirmed that Alenia Aermacchi, Dassault Aviation and Airbus had provided a joint proposal for a definition phase in May to the French, German and Italian governments respectively.
At the 2013 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, the trio of companies agreed to develop a European MALE UAS, designed to define a system which could be ‘certifiable’ by 2020. The proposal was delivered
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