BAE Systems/Dassault Telemos

The BAE Systems/Dassault Telemos was an unmanned military aircraft that BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation were developing jointly, using the BAE Systems Mantis demonstrator, first flown in 2009, as the basis. A mockup was unveiled at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget in 2011, by which time BAE had the lead role, though there was still no formal joint British and French requirement. The two companies had an exclusive agreement not to cooperate with other partners on UAVs, and the Telemos was expected to compete with the EADS Talarion for European and South Korean orders. Both turboprops and turbofans were considered, and the mockup had turboprops for longer endurance. The Anglo-French programme was abandoned in July 2012 when the French government looked to other European partners.