Quick Summary
• Belgian metal additive manufacturing company AnyShape has been selected as an industrial partner by Airbus Defence and Space for the Eurodrone program. The contract is not a prototype run or a technology demonstration. It covers sustained production volumes over multiple years, under the kind of aerospace-grade quality controls that have historically kept additive manufacturing at…
Additional Context
Belgian metal additive manufacturing company AnyShape has been selected as an industrial partner by Airbus Defence and Space for the Eurodrone program. The contract is not a prototype run or a technology demonstration. It covers sustained production volumes over multiple years, under the kind of aerospace-grade quality controls that have historically kept additive manufacturing at the margins of defense supply chains.
AnyShape is joined in the program by fellow Belgian company Materialise, which is producing the Environmental Control System through its industrial AM service division.
Eurodrone is the first RPAS natively designed and certified to fly safely in non-segregated (civilian) airspace. Image via Airbus.
What Eurodrone Actually Is
Eurodrone is a remotely piloted aircraft system