Overview
- The U760 Ravenstorm, which Airbus unveiled Wednesday at ILA Berlin, is a multirole Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft intended for air-to-air, air-to-ground and electronic warfare and was shown as a full‑scale 10 m wingspan mockup with representative Meteor missiles.
- Airbus confirmed a European-adapted U740 Valkyrie developed with Kratos that will use Airbus’s MARS mission system and that two Valkyrie airframes are scheduled for flights with European mission systems later in 2026 ahead of operational experimentation targeted for 2029.
- The company introduced the U145, an autonomous variant of the H145 helicopter designed for cargo, disaster response, surveillance and potential use as a drone 'mothership' for launching other weapons or sensors.
- All new 'U' platforms will use Airbus’s MARS mission system, which the company says incorporates an AI-supported core to enable platform autonomy and to standardize mission software across interceptors, tactical drones, UCCAs and the Eurodrone.
- Airbus framed the announcements as a phased roadmap that builds on two decades of unmanned research but left key details unresolved, including weapon-carriage arrangements, certification paths and the current status of the 2024 stealthy loyal‑wingman demonstrator.