{"id":2984433,"date":"2026-06-27T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/airbus-kawasaki-asw-eurodrone-japan-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:19:34","slug":"airbus-kawasaki-asw-eurodrone-japan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fr\/airbus-kawasaki-asw-eurodrone-japan-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"A Submarine-Hunting Eurodrone, Built for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that machines are built for &mdash; and on 26 June 2026, two of the world&rsquo;s aerospace heavyweights agreed to build one.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding to study an anti-submarine and maritime-patrol version of the European-built Eurodrone. The idea, tailored to Japan&rsquo;s defence needs, is to take a large reconnaissance drone and teach it to find and kill submarines.<\/p>\n<p>It is a notable pairing: a European unmanned aircraft, reshaped by a Japanese manufacturer, for a mission dominated until now by large crewed jets.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border-radius:10px;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><strong style=\"display:block;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/strong><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li><strong>The deal:<\/strong> Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on 26 June 2026 to study an anti-submarine and maritime-patrol version of the Eurodrone<\/li><li><strong>Base aircraft:<\/strong> the U950 Eurodrone &mdash; a twin-engine, medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV; first flight planned for 2029<\/li><li><strong>New mission kit:<\/strong> ASW sensors, sonobuoys and torpedoes, plus teaming with Japan&rsquo;s crewed Kawasaki P-1<\/li><li><strong>Endurance:<\/strong> up to 40 hours aloft<\/li><li><strong>Size:<\/strong> roughly 5&ndash;6 m longer and wider than an MQ-9 Reaper, with more than double the maximum take-off weight<\/li><li><strong>Programme:<\/strong> Germany (21), Italy (15), France (12) and Spain (12) are the launch customers; Japan has been a partner since November 2023<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The aircraft underneath<\/h2>\n<p>The Eurodrone &mdash; formally the U950 &mdash; is Europe&rsquo;s answer to the American MQ-9 Reaper, but a markedly bigger one. It is roughly 5&ndash;6 metres longer and wider than the Reaper and carries more than double the maximum take-off weight. Two turboprop engines, rather than the Reaper&rsquo;s single engine, sit at the heart of a long-running argument about the design.<\/p>\n<p>Germany insisted on that second engine so the drone could fly safely over populated areas. Critics called it dead weight and added cost. For a maritime mission, though, the calculus flips: an engine failure 1,500 kilometres out over the Pacific is survivable on two engines and fatal on one. Redundancy that looked like a liability over land becomes a virtue over water.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;We had and still have four nations on this programme.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\">&mdash; Jean-Brice Dumont, Airbus, on Eurodrone&rsquo;s status at the ILA Berlin air show, June 2026<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>The programme&rsquo;s launch customers are Germany (21 aircraft), Italy (15), France and Spain (12 each), with Airbus as lead contractor alongside Leonardo and Dassault. First flight is scheduled for 2029. Japan has held partner status since November 2023, but has not yet committed to an order.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From spy drone to submarine hunter<\/h2>\n<p>Turning a surveillance platform into an ASW aircraft is not a paint job. Engineers will have to integrate sonobuoys &mdash; the small sonar sensors dropped into the sea to listen for submarines &mdash; along with the processing to make sense of them, and the ability to carry lightweight torpedoes. With an endurance of up to 40 hours, the airframe itself is well suited to the patient geometry of a submarine search.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=526890388  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/kawasaki-p1-jmsdf-maritime-patrol-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Japan&rsquo;s crewed Kawasaki P-1 would team with the uncrewed Eurodrone, sharing the workload of screening huge stretches of ocean. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>The most interesting line in Kawasaki&rsquo;s announcement is about teaming. The maritime Eurodrone is not meant to replace the crewed Kawasaki P-1; it is meant to fly <em>with<\/em> it &mdash; a manned-unmanned partnership in which the drone widens the search area while the P-1&rsquo;s crew prosecutes the contacts that matter. It is the same logic now reshaping surface and subsurface warfare: the expensive, crewed platform becomes the tip of a much larger, cheaper, partly-automated spear.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2070508518462144633&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:520px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why the timing makes sense<\/h2>\n<p>Japan has reason to want this. It patrols enormous stretches of the Pacific and sits beside a Chinese submarine fleet that grows every year. It already operates dozens of P-1 and P-3 Orion patrol aircraft and is fielding RQ-4B Global Hawks for long-range surveillance &mdash; but the Global Hawk carries no weapons and cannot hunt submarines at all. An armed, long-endurance drone fills exactly that gap.<\/p>\n<p>For now this is a study, not a sale. But the direction of travel is unmistakable: the lonely, exhausting business of submarine hunting is about to get a tireless new partner that never needs to sleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#666;font-size:14px;margin-top:18px\">Sources: The Aviationist; Kawasaki Heavy Industries; FlightGlobal.<\/p>\n<!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;color:#5C91FF}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is the Eurodrone?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Eurodrone (designation U950) is a twin-engine, medium-altitude, long-endurance surveillance drone developed by Airbus with Leonardo and Dassault for Germany, Italy, France and Spain. It fills a similar role to the American MQ-9 Reaper but is larger and heavier, and its first flight is planned for 2029.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What would the anti-submarine Eurodrone do?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Under the Airbus\u2013Kawasaki agreement, a maritime variant would carry sonobuoys and torpedoes to detect and attack submarines, and provide persistent maritime surveillance. Crucially it is intended to team with Japan's crewed Kawasaki P-1 patrol aircraft, sharing the workload of screening large ocean areas.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why is Japan interested?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Japan patrols vast stretches of the Pacific and sits next to China's rapidly growing submarine fleet. It already flies dozens of Kawasaki P-1 and P-3 Orion patrol aircraft and is adding RQ-4B Global Hawks for surveillance \u2014 but the Global Hawk carries no weapons and has no anti-submarine capability, a gap an armed Eurodrone could fill.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How is the Eurodrone different from an MQ-9 Reaper?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Eurodrone is about 5\u20136 metres longer and wider than the MQ-9 and has more than twice its maximum take-off weight. Germany insisted on two engines for safety when flying over populated areas; that adds weight and cost, but the redundancy is an advantage on long over-water patrols.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Has Japan ordered the drone?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Not yet. 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