India’s interest in Eurodrone builds off a joint statement signed with Germany in October 2024 to deepen defense cooperation and which includes a “specific focus on technology collaboration, manufacturing/co-production and co-development of defence platforms and equipment.”
Defense firms the world over took the opportunity to show off their vehicles, airframes and more bespoke platforms at the 2024 edition of ILA's Berlin Air Show.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Eurodrone is a four-nation European consortium, involving Germany, France, Spain and Italy, which aims to develop an unmanned aerial system for operation in a non-segregated airspace.
The risks at hand cover qualification of new capabilities, operational reliability, meeting cost reduction targets and securing “overall volume” as defined in a revised baseline contract, according to Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO.
"What this tells us is that those projects once in the annual defense budget were not properly funded before transferring to the special arms fund," said Christian Molling, research director at the German Council on Foreign Relations.