The aircraft would be equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, to increase communication coverage for deployed ground troops.
“From our humble beginnings in a rented shack in Europe six years ago, I am proud of what we have achieved as a team and the appreciation we receive from our customers, as well as the regulators involved in this program.”
“I am proud to see our big companies moving out of their comfort zones to go further, being even more creative and setting themselves up to offer more creative mobility solutions,” said French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne.
As the aerospace industry accelerates toward an electric future, Rolls-Royce has secured a jump-start on its strategic goals with the surprise acquisition of Siemen’s electric and hybrid electric aerospace propulsion unit.
The two companies will develop the P600 AEW platform by mounting the IAI Elta’s ELM-2096 active electronically scanned array surveillance radar in a ski-box-like pod mounted atop the fuselage of Embraer’s new Praetor 600 business jet.
Safran Helicopter Engines has achieved European Aviation Safety Agency certification of the Arrano turboshaft for Airbus’ new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter.
The electronically steered phased-array RDR-84K detects weather phenomena and can simultaneously scan and receive radar returns from aircraft, ground vehicles, buildings and people.
Conducted on May 28-29, the demonstration required controllers in tower and terminal radar approach control environments to manage the SkyGuardian in different contingency and emergency scenarios.
SB-S will enable an aircraft to off-board operational information drawn from Avionica’s wireless data collection and transmission devices, which provide access to flight information wherever the aircraft is operating around the world.
Dubbed Ecopulse, the modified Daher TBM 900 series turboprop single will feature, in addition to its usual nose-section engine and propeller, three smaller propellers on each wing.
SafeRoute+ applications, hosted on ACSS TCAS 3000SP or T3CAS processors, use the company’s ADS-B Guidance Display (AGD) with an aircraft’s existing navigation and multifunction control and display units.
