Flight Testing Taranis

Taranis is a UK MoD programme with the aim of delivering a flying UAS demonstrator. Built and operated by BAE SYSTEMS and Rolls Royce, the demonstration programme was split into two primary phases. The lecture, given by 3 experts from BAAE Systems working on the programme, introduces the objectives, scope and challenges of the Taranis programme; discussing the approach adopted with respect to the safety case that is considered necessary to test a large, experimental unmanned technology demonstrator. By combining safety by design and additional operational mitigations, a viable safety case has been constructed to permit experimental flight trials of this unique UK aircraft.