Research and Development for RAF Advanced Modular Aircraft

AERALIS agreed to a three-year contract with the Royal Air Force (RAF)’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) for research and development on the design and development of future aircraft.

The RCO will support the requirements and design review process to gain an understanding of how AERALIS’ agile, modular, commercially-driven aircraft design can develop and certify a range of future aircraft systems for the RAF’s future fleet.

The AERALIS modular aircraft system streamlines the design, development and in-service support processes for military aircraft across multiple training and front-line roles, helping to reduce the complexity and costs of acquisition and sustainment when compared with more traditional approaches.

“AERALIS offers an extremely disruptive and innovative approach to design, modelling and certification processes in military aerospace,” commented Air Commodore Jez Holmes, the Head of the RAF’s Rapid Capabilities Office.  “We are pleased to be working with AERALIS to explore the modular air-system approach to future aircraft certification, design and development and, in particular, to understand the exploitation potential of PYRAMID, our new open mission system architecture.”

With a view to full-scale production, the AERALIS project has the scope to directly create over 200 new UK high-value design and manufacturing jobs, supporting a further 3800 in the UK supply chain.

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