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Rafale F4 Debuts Electronic Warfare Payload for Radar Detection

The test flight showed radar-detection and electronic warfare capabilities as Harmattan AI and Dassault Aviation advanced mission-ready systems for contested environments.

Dassault Aviation has completed a flight test that paired its Rafale F4 fighter with an unmanned aircraft carrying a compact electronic warfare payload, demonstrating a new way to detect and locate hostile radar systems before a strike. The demonstration involved NAMIB, an electronic warfare system developed with French startup Harmattan AI. During the exercise, the drone identified a radar installation from several dozen kilometers away, calcul…

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In January, after getting closer to Thales [and its CortAIx division] and signing a memorandum of understanding with the Ministerial Agency for Defense Artificial Intelligence [AMIAD] to develop the use of AI in the field of fighter aviation, Dassault Aviation announced a strategic partnership with the French company Harmattan AI to "accelerate the integration of autonomy... This article A Rafale F4 successfully completed a collaborative combat …

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The French company Dassault Aviation announced a few hours ago that it successfully completed a test flight from which the Rafale F4 fighter aircraft and a Raybird drone equipped with the NAMIB system took part. The latter corresponds to an electronic war payload developed in conjunction with Harmattan AI. In the recent [...] The Dassault Aviation entry successfully completes a test flight between the Rafale F4 and a Raybird drone equipped with …

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A Dassault Aviation Rafale F4 and a Harmattan AI drone equipped with NAMIB, a new electronic war payload, together conducted a collaborative test flight. The drone detected an enemy radar several tens of kilometres away.

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Globe Newswire broke the news on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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