This quote will only be correct if it were changed into This was the first time in the world that a technology demonstrator drone flew in formation with a fighter and a bizjet

Agree. Btw as as i said above, longer shot to come.

i was talking about the X45/F18 flight Bio.

Btw, The flying Rafale is the B301 experimental plane. Did you notice the small white satcom antenna?

Don’t speak to someone who do not want to hear Nic

Ok i think i found the source.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/02/20/bae-malaysia-idINWLB0079Z20140220

is it?

The 13th of March (taht is later), during the annual results conference Dassault CEO clearly denied having received any leasing sollicitation. The video is on the net.

So something is fishy. (either Reuters report is misreported, either one of their is a propaganda war).

if you look at recent Jane’s News, it seems that Malysia will move to a leasing solution, but not decided yet.

Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief General Rodzali Daud mooted the strong possibility in 2013 of the MRCA requirement transforming from a purchase deal to a lease deal due to a lack of available funding.

http://www.janes.com/article/36730/dsa-2014-mrca-candidates-outline-leasing-options-for-malaysia

And to what Atlantique 2 did in Mali…

Sqd 2/30″Normandie-Nemen” wont the “Recce Meet” exercise trophy. Congratulations to them! It is also noticeable that 3 rafales will be deployed in India for next Garuda exercise early may. Ah and technical and financial contracts are wrapped for a sale to Qatar according to industrial sources (La Tribune, Air&Cosmos infos, i checked). Signature hoped soon (probably in june during the emir visit in Paris?), but no triumphalism here after some disappointing news about “done deals” in the past

You are absolutely right, NEUROn is only e technology demonstrator. It’s successor should be the EFCAS, jointly built with BAE (and possibly others). Neuron simply can’t be piloted remorely, the AI pilots and operators just validate flight phases. For this vido for ex, FCS was in “stealthy” mode (very slightly moving part) otherwise the agility (i mean time to bank) of the drone is too high for human piloted planes to follow. The risky part is the drone has self adaptation capabilities (for ex, if the engine was to stop, the drone would dive to restart it, or if there is a critical failure, the drone will decide by itself to go back and land home) that had to be managed.
More vidoes are to come, (making of next week for ex.), with more manoeuvers.
Btw, there were two aircrafts other to take the video.