Defence spends around £8 billion annually on the provision of equipment and technological solutions for our Armed Forces. The cost of delivering and maintaining these platforms grows with technical complexity. For military platforms and weapons systems, there are significant technical challenges in driving down the cost of integration and ownership; integrating these systems into a networked environment; addressing a range of difficult targets; and providing the ability to defeat targets under highly constrained rules of engagement. This will drive the need for increased stand-off ranges of our platform and weapons systems which will require developments in our propulsion and airframe designs.
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The Smarter Testing project aims to develop a novel testing and certification process for aeronautical structures through the use of an optimised test campaign that will combine virtual and physical tests to provide a st...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
The project aims to develop a novel testing and certification process for aeronautical structures, which can help reduce the cost and environmental impacts associated with the test and evaluation of large scale, integrated and complex military systems.