High-end endo-atmospheric interception
Pays one defence consortium EUR 100 million to mature interceptor technology against hypersonic and ballistic missile threats, up to Technology Readiness Level 6.
This is an accelerated development-action call implemented in indirect management: rather than the Commission administering it directly, the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) runs the competitive call and is remunerated separately for doing so from a EUR 2 million allocation on top of the topic's own EUR 100 million pool. The legal instrument is a Contribution Agreement rather th…
The European Defence Fund wants a single project that advances the development of an endo-atmospheric interceptor against hypersonic and ballistic threats, building on earlier work and maturing key technologies, airframe, propulsion, platform separation, lethality, and threat tracking and acquisition, up to TRL 6 through dedicated demonstrators.
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