Multi-role combat aircraft: adaptation for export
In a highly competitive environment, adesigner and manufacturer of fighter aircrafthas wonthree export contractswith countries inAsiaand theMiddle Eastsuccessively. ALTEN accompanies the client incustomising the aircraftand insupporting industrial transfers.
This commercial success (more than90 aircraft exported) lies in the product’s operational excellence and in the aircraft manufacturer’sadaptability在修改飞机梅伊t the specific needs of the client country’s air force and implementing technological transfers to upgrade the skills of local industries in the country.
Over 70 ALTEN engineersare working to complete these projects in support of export contracts in:
- System Engineering: integration of new equipment and adding new features
- Layout: review of equipment, cable, piping and support layout
- Mechanical design: optimisation of the assembly of certain subsets (such as the windscreen) and the complex calculation of vibroacoustic loads and fatigue.
On the other hand, the aircraft was developed in the late ‘80s, and the digital model needed to be migrated to the most recent version of the 3D design tool to make changes in line with modern techniques. ALTEN was a pioneer in this project by working on themethodologyand thequality of the definition of the parts(such as compliance with design methods and factory part/digital model matches).