Single chin intake for a 43,000 lbf thrust engine and a nose design that will not obstruct the pilot’s view for carrier landings.

Intake should look like this

I think its a beautiful aircraft. Imagine 43,000 lbf pushing that compact lightweight aerodynamic aircraft.

Dassault, BAE Systems to Spend €1 Billion on Drone

The project, dubbed Telemos after a mythical cyclops with long-range vision, stems from a Franco-British cooperation treaty signed last November. BAE is leading the project’s management.

The cost of developing the unmanned aerial vehicle is estimated at €1 billion ($1.47 billion), to be split evenly, with most of the development cost being financed by the companies, Dassault’s head of international operations, Eric Trappier, told a press conference.

Hopefully they learned from the x-32 experience. At least make it look like a fighter. 😎

It looks great! Somewhat like a twin-engined manned Phantom Ray.

Very interesting watch …would like to see more of that second concept ( only briefly shown ) in manned and UCAV configuration ( one image of it is well known anyway, i think).:)
Wonder what kind of performance those concepts are suposed to achieve, what kind of engines they will put in, weapons, avionics etc etc.

You can see more of the aircraft in part 2 starting from 2:14.

China, Russia Could Make U.S. Stealth Tech Obsolete WIRED article
The Maturing Revolution in Military Affairs (PDF link) Barry Watts

Stealth-killing advances include VHF and UHF radars being developed by Russia and China, and a “passive-detection” system devised by Czech researchers. The latter “uses radar, television, cellular phone and other available signals of opportunity reflected off stealthy aircraft to find and track them,” Watts explains.

To me , the A.I is running in a similar way than the SETI software wrt fourrier transform to search for electronics patterns but with a thumb up , if I may say .
Then , the Engine (should we call an A.I an Engine ?) is designed to filter out the EM spikes treated by the RAM and concentrate its brain power on electronicaly hide the rest and/or twist the returns .
To answer your question , Heuristics are not good enough since they somehow bet on recognition and statistics . I think it is more “flag” related with a kind of 3D engine running the stuff with a huge library at hand (the Rafale EM 3D mapping) .

Cheers .

Wouldn’t this require alot of compute power to perform in real-time?

BAE Systems, Dassault Await UAS Requirement

France and the U.K. have committed to jointly address their medium-, long-endurance unmanned aircraft (MALE) requirement under the new defense agreement that was formulated in November 2010. But much of the program’s success will hinge on devising combined requirements and a cohesive acquisition strategy. Progress on both fronts is being made, and a definitive shape is likely in the next few months.[…]

Another decision revolves around devising an exportable system. The two countries “would like to minimize ITAR content,” Fairclough says of equipment governed by the complex U.S. International Transfer of Arms Regulations

It would be interesting to know how Taranis and nEUROn compare RCS wise with the Boeing Phantom Ray, NG X-47 and Lockmart RQ-170.

I hope Typhoon and Rafale are not the last manned fighters from Europe. There isn’t any next gen fighter engine programme as well.

French fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan, technical problems suspected

PARIS — A French Mirage fighter jet has crashed in southern Afghanistan while accompanying a convoy, but both pilots ejected safely.