“No Human Occupants” warns the sign below the cockpit of the Mantis - displayed at BAE Systems pavilion.

The company presented here several UAV models, among them this full scale Mantis, that recently its first flight testing series. Taranis is expected to begin flight testing next year but is not considered to develop into an operational program before the middle of the next decade (2024) as a possible alternative for the Tornado GR-4 replacement. In the foreground is the Demon, a proof of concept flying scale model built of carbon fibers, developed by the Carnfield University Aircraft Design Center to test fly a flapless control configuration.