Vortex space plane
At the 2025 Paris Air Show, Dassault Aviation unveiled its plan for the development of its Vortex range of space planes. This phased, dual‑purpose roadmap is geared towards developing key strategic capabilities and meeting the scientific and economic challenges of the emerging space economy in cooperation with European and international partners.
© Dassault Aviation - Falcon Graphics Lab
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Airborne AI
As part of a strategy to integrate sovereign and supervised AI into its combat systems, Dassault Aviation has entered into a number of partnerships: with the French Ministry of Defense’s AI Agency (AMIAD), in June 2025; with Thales as part of the cortAIx AI accelerator initiative, in November 2025; and with Harmattan AI in January 2026.