{"id":15647,"date":"2026-06-28T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15647"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:49:20","slug":"airbus-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-kawasaki-heavy-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15647","title":{"rendered":"Airbus signs Memorandum of Understanding with Kawasaki Heavy Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Story and image from Airbus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2026 \u2013 <\/strong>Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Under the MoU, Airbus, in cooperation with\u00a0 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, will analyse opportunities to work on a Japanese anti-submarine warfare variant of the U950 Eurodrone<em>,<\/em>Europe\u2019s first Large Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). Japan has held observer status in the Eurodrone program since 2023.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Eurodrone is ideally suited for countries like Japan that need to monitor large maritime areas. Compared to its nearest competitor, Eurodrone has very long flight endurances and can fly with much more mission payload, including sonobuoys and torpedoes for anti-submarine warfare. With Eurodrone, Japan could complement its current crewed anti-submarine warfare fleet with a very efficient uncrewed platform and strengthen its maritime security in a sovereign and sustainable manner.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the next step, Airbus will engage in discussions with Kawasaki Heavy Industries to develop options for the design, development, and commercialisation for a future Japanese maritime version of Eurodrone, including the definition of possible configurations, integration of Japanese sensors and effectors, and other potential workshare for Japanese industry during production and sustainment. All this is intended to ensure that Japan can operate the Eurodrone sovereignly and without restrictions, should the country decide to acquire the RPAS.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Click the link to read the full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026-06-airbus-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-to-explore-japanese-anti-submarine-variant-of-the-eurodrone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airbus signs MoU with Kawasaki Heavy Industries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Airbus Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2026 \u2013 Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Under the MoU, Airbus, in cooperation with\u00a0 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, will analyse opportunities to work on a Japanese anti-submarine warfare variant of the U950 Eurodrone,Europe\u2019s first Large Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4510,798,89,5637,5174,5676,8590,5446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news","category-airbus-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-drone-news","category-international-news","category-japan-news","category-military-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15652,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647\/revisions\/15652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}