After many years of special mission A320 proposals, a contract has been signed between Airbus and the French Defense Procurement Agency to assess an A321 ...

Work on a joint German and Spanish active, electronically scanned array radar for the Eurofighter is taking a leap forward with the development of an Airbus A320-based flying testbed. By year-end, ...

Airbus Defense and Space has begun a risk-assessment study for France’s future maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), to be based on an Airbus A321 airliner platform. Billed as a “flying frigate” by the ...

Airbus states the A321MPA will be designed to be equipped with a full range of sensors for maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare, while the payload bay will be able to carry torpedoes and ...

The testbed for the latest and greatest radar under development for the Eurofighter Typhoon is an unusual looking model of ...

Germany's DLR aerospace research centre has completed the first flight of an Airbus A320 adapted to conduct airborne testing of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for Eurofighter ...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) airfield served as the setting for the maiden flight of the Advanced Technology Research ...

The modified A320 ATRA also carried out high speed taxi tests. Credit: Peter R Foster IDMA/Shutterstock. Airbus has revealed the completion of ‘first flight’ for German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) ...

Airbus conducted the maiden flight of a modified A320 ATRA (Advanced Technology Research Aircraft) on January 21 at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig, Germany. The aircraft, featuring ...

Airbus has flown the Advanced Technology Research Aircraft (ATRA) flight test aircraft (FTA) that has been modified for the Eurofighter electronically scanned ...

The Advanced Technology Research Aircraft is equipped with the nose of a Eurofighter to test the new E-Scan Mk1 AESA radar, ...