French Navy qualifies Airbus Aliaca VTOL drone
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French Navy qualifies Airbus Aliaca VTOL drone
France’s defense procurement agency (DGA) has qualified the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) version of Airbus Helicopters’ U010 Aliaca tactical drone for service with the French Navy. The qualification, announced by Airbus as the Euronaval exhibition opened near Paris, follows a series of land and sea trials conducted with the French Navy in May and June 2026. It clears the drone to enter service under the SMDM (Système de Mini-Drones emb…
Ordered twenty-six copies [eleven in 2021 and fifteen in 2024] from Survey Copter, a subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters, to equip the surveillance frigates, the high seas patrollers and the semaphores, the aircraft mini-drones system for the Navy [SMDM] Aliaca has, so far, given full satisfaction since its entry into service. Used for... This article Destined for the National Navy, the VTOL version of the Aliaca drone has been qualified by the Dir…
The new VTOL version of the tactical drone U010 Aliaca of Airbus Helicopters has obtained the official qualification from the Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA). This qualification follows a rigorous test campaign, conducted on the ground and at sea between May and June 2026, in close collaboration with the National Marine...
The Directorate-General for Armaments has described the VTOL version (vertical take-off and landing) of the U010 Aliaca drone developed by Airbus Helicopters as supporting the operations of the National Navy.
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