Paris Air Show 2025: BAE Systems, Avioniq trial Rattlesnaq AI on Eurofighter Typhoon

While currently geared at the large area display cockpit (pictured) of the Long-Term Evolution standard of Eurofighter, the Rattlesnaq AI suite may be drawn back onto current iterations of the aircraft. (BAE Systems)

BAE Systems and Avioniq are trialling the Rattlesnaq artificial intelligence (AI) suite aboard the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft, Janes was told ahead of the Paris Air Show 2025 from 16 to 22 June.

Paul Smith, BAE Systems head of Typhoon Strategy Delivery, and Mikael Grev, Avioniq CEO, outlined how the trials of the Swedish company's Rattlesnaq, which to date have taken place in a synthetic environment, have been geared at demonstrating the training and operational benefits that the AI suite could bring to pilots of the Eurofighter, particularly in the field of beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air combat.

“It does a couple of things. One is it gives a very dynamic, continuously computed threat indication of all the different threats, but actually then brings all of that together in one picture. Previously, we would be trying to do those calculations in our head using complex rules of thumb whilst flying the aircraft in three dimensions in high g , and obviously doing weaponeering as well. So, it really takes off the workload,” Smith, a former UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 pilot, said.