Dassault Aviation

Dassault Aviation is a French manufacturer of military aircraft and business jets, founded in 1929 by Marcel Bloch (later Marcel Dassault) and headquartered in Paris. Best known for the Mirage and Rafale fighter families, the company also leads Europe's principal unmanned combat air vehicle technology demonstrator programme.

History and products

Dassault Aviation is prime contractor for nEUROn, a stealthy UCAV demonstrator developed with Italy, Sweden, Spain, Greece and Switzerland and first flown in 2012, which has since conducted flight and weapons trials in France, Italy and Sweden. The programme was designed to give European industry experience with stealth shaping, autonomous flight control and internal weapons carriage that feeds into potential future combat-air systems. Dassault is also an industrial partner, alongside Airbus and Leonardo, on the multinational Eurodrone MALE UAS programme, and continues to develop unmanned-teaming concepts for its future fighter studies.

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The nEUROn is Dassault Aviation's stealth UCAV technology demonstrator, developed with five European partner nations.