European premiere: Airbus-led large-scale flight demo teams up fighters, a helicopter and drones
Source: Airbus In Europe’s first large-scale multi-domain flight demo, led by Airbus, two fighter jets, one helicopter and five unmanned remote carriers teamed up and accomplished a mission that could occur in real-life situations. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demonstrator project will now move to the next phase: further paving the way for FCAS by developing a flying remote carrier (RC) demonstrator in the coming years. “With the Multi-Domain Flight Demo, or MDFD, we demonstrated for the first time in Europe how manned-unmanned teaming capabilities and functionalities with up to ten connected assets work in a real-life inspired scenario and under near operational conditions,” said Jean Brice Dumont, Head of Military Air Systems at Airbus. "This is [...]