Northrop Grumman is pitching the unmanned combat air vehicle technology derived from its US Navy-sponsored X-47B demonstrator to the UK, to feed into its Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme.
The UK Ministry of Defence began the FCAS effort in 2011 to help shape the combat system that forces would operate in the future, identifying unmanned technology as a key area of concern. Northrop Grumman is hoping to begin discussions with the MoD to encourage it to consider four key areas in its UCAV design.
The X-47B demonstrator was produced under the USN’s unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) programme, through which Northrop has identified the key areas of range, endurance, survivability and payload capacity as paramount for the development of this type of aircraft.
“You need to look at all four areas to get the balance that you need,” Timothy Beard, deputy director of long lead capture advanced concepts development at the company, says.
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