There is a big article on Flight Global (which you need to sign in to read) outlining the work being done on the Taranis test programme and how this might feed in to FCAS.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/rolls-royce-details-ucas-power-challenge-398678/
Highlights include:
Power requirements for the systems are a challenge with the Adour engine.
“….writing in the Defence Equipment and Support organisation’s Desider publication, Air Marshal Simon Bollom, Chief of Materiel (Air), describes the campaign so far as having demonstrated that the design is “at the forefront of low observable technology”.
“With regard to the Anglo-French FCAS activity being led by industry partners BAE and Dassault, R-R’s Banks says only joint aspects are being pursued through an ongoing demonstration programme preparation phase, with national-only work on Taranis and Neuron remaining fully firewalled.
“We have very clear security aspect levels,” Banks says. Similarly, development activities pursued by R-R in the USA for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s *ADVENT future engine technology project are protected from any exchange.”
There is a lot more, but my question is this. Lets just say that the UK and French decide they like what nEUROn and Taranis show them, how do you produce a production aircraft out of them? I have long suspected that Taranis incorporates stuff which the UK has worked long and hard on on its own, and won’t want to share.
I’m sure the French must have similar issues even if nEUROn is a multinational project.
How might that work?
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April 29, 2014 at 12:23 pm