 In 2010 research studies were launched at the academic partner institutes at Technical University of Chemnitz and Technical University of Munich, the Bundeswehr University Munich , the technical university Ingolstadt and at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at Braunschweig and Oberpfaffenhofen.All partners designed and built unmanned research aircraft to demonstrate technologies out of the research programme.The first flight took place 5 July 2017 at the Denel Overberg Test Range in South Africa.