Taranis Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)
The GBP 124m Taranis Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator programme, with BAE Systems as the industry lead and prime contractor, and other industry partners comprising QinetiQ, Rolls-Royce and Smiths Aerospace, has reached a major milestone with the design of the autonomous systems now finalised.
Taranis will be the largest UAV yet built in the UK, and as part of the UK MOD's Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle (Experiment) (SUAV(E)) programme will explore and demonstrate how emerging technologies and systems can deliver battle-winning capabilities for the UK armed forces.
"This milestone was reached ahead of schedule, and a team effort had gone into achieving it," said Chris Allam, BAE Systems' Taranis project director. "For this part of the programme, we were working together with QinetiQ and the MOD, and we created a genuine team ethos. We have drawn on QinetiQ's background in areas such as reasoning algorithms, while we had expertise in areas such as system architecture, and we were able to combine those skills and experience under our overall control."
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