Airbus has announced a major upgrade to its A400M military transport aircraft, outlining plans to reconfigure the platform to support the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) and the Multi-Domain Combat Cloud (MDCC).
The platform is intended to serve as a high-bandwidth communications hub, linking manned and unmanned systems across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.
It is also expected to support electronic warfare, launch precision-guided munitions, and deploy Remote Carriers, a new type of unmanned systems that the A400M can transport near the battlespace and control in flight if needed.
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