Expected Impact:
The outcome should contribute to:
- Versatile European propulsion system to fulfil the increasing systems power demand.
- Affordable propulsive system such as cost competitive for the whole life cycle.
- Robust and reliable system with good maintainability, even when operating in harsh environments.
- Easy to maintain and repair such as supported by predictive maintenance tools (digital twin) and 3D intuitive documentation and instructions for maintenance crews.
- Sovereign European propulsive solution for new rotorcraft applications.
- Reinforce the EU sovereignty and independence on these strategic platforms through the strengthening of the EU supply chain and integration of EU Member States' and EDF Associated Countries' system capabilities and provide a product free from export control restrictions by non-EU or non-EDF Associated countries.
The objective of this call is to develop and mature the technologies required for a new state-of-the-art, breakthrough, affordable, efficient, and high-power (above 3000 shp / 2.237 kW) engine for future generation of EU military rotorcraft systems.
Specific objective
The objective of this research topic is to better understand and analyse the future needs EU Members States and EDF Associated Countries and the transition to future rotorcraft features, concepts, and capabilities, and to derive specific design parameters for next generation propulsion systems. Conception and pre-design of an alternative propulsion system
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