2024 Annual Report

Shaping tomorrow’s programs

We provide the project management and organizational expertise needed to ensure that all parties involved work together effectively in order to deliver complex programs that meet our customers’ evolving needs, on time and on budget.

Industrial architect

We manage the entire life cycle of aircraft programs for our customers and partners. We add value through our ability to manage, coordinate and guarantee the ultimate efficacy of the systems delivered by the projects we lead.

Guarantor of each system’s underlying fundamentals and its development, we are responsible for assessing the technological challenges involved, as well as the scope and sharing of tasks between partners.

Design architect

Our approach to product design is focused on mastering complexity and harnessing data. Deployed as part of combat bubbles, our future weapons systems need to enable humans to maintain their position at the helm of the decision-making process, while ensuring operational performance in the midst of high-intensity operations and in situations involving contested network conditions. This will be achieved by means of collaborative combat, automated systems based partly on AI, as well as adaptive and resilient system architectures.

Rafale road map

The Rafale continues to surge ahead thanks to a combination of technological advances and user feedback. Its F3-R standard, launched in 2014, entered service in December 2019. The F4 standard, with its focus on connectivity and enhanced payloads, will be validated in 2027.

Collaborative combat

The Rafale F5 standard will be focused on collaborative combat, and will offer the capability of operating in tandem with a UCAS. Drawing on the achievements of the nEUROn program, this highly versatile stealth UCAS system will be designed to keep pace with future threats.

New Falcons

The Falcon 6X is now being flown by our customers, who are enjoying its outstanding levels of performance and comfort.

The Falcon 10X was unveiled in May 2021. First delivery is slated for the end of 2027.

Special‑mission Falcons

The outstanding features of the Falcon range enable it to be used for a wide variety of missions.

The Falcon Albatros maritime surveillance and intervention aircraft (AVSIMAR) made its maiden flight in January 2025. Deliveries of seven aircraft of this type, based on the Falcon 2000LXS, will commence in 2026.

Launched in December 2019, the Falcon Archange is a Falcon 8X modified for use as a strategic intelligence aircraft. The French government has ordered three Archanges.

NGF demonstrator

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Phase 1B contract for R&T and overall flying demonstrator design commenced in March 2023. As prime contractor and architect of the New Generation Fighter NGF (Pillar 1), Dassault Aviation is in charge of coordinating work with the manufacturing teams from all three partner countries at its facility in Saint-Cloud.

Space expertise

Our expertise enables us to design cutting-edge projects and to support future space ventures.

Lead, coordinate & deliver