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Farnborough: Taranis completes stealth test phase

15th July 2014 - 13:34 GMT | by Andrew White in Farnborough

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The Taranis UCAV demonstrator has successfully proven its stealth capability in a second phase of testing, according to BAE Systems.

According to programme officials, the air vehicle conducted its latest round of flight trials at an undisclosed location between the end of 2013 and start of 2014, proving ‘communications, mission performance and aircraft handling in low observability’.

Speaking to the media at the Farnborough International Airshow on 14 July, Chris Garside, engineering director, future combat air systems at BAE Systems, described a ‘major technological breakthrough…in full stealth configuration’.

‘We demonstrated a conformal air data system, generating a full set of

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