法国修改了达索“阵风”战斗机内部机炮的软件，作为增强武装部队反无人机系统（C-UAS）能力的一系列措施的一部分。法国军备总局（DGA）于2026年4月15日向国民议会表示，“阵风”的30毫米Giat DEFA 791B内部机炮已经过调整，使其能够执行反无人机任务，特别是针对伊朗“见证者”型单向攻击无人机。
DGA负责人帕特里克·帕尤表示：“我们已经签订了修改‘阵风’火控系统的合同，以便能够用机炮近距离交战‘见证者’无人机。这是武装部队想要的能力，我们迅速与达索签订了修改合同。”帕尤指出，视差问题（即物体的位置或方向在从不同位置观察时出现差异）以前使得利用机炮在近距离接战此类目标变得困难。该更新是作为法国2024-2030年军事规划法（LPM）修订的一部分进行的。
A file photo of a French Air and Space Forces Rafale combat aircraft. The DGA has contracted Dassault to update the aircraft's fire control system to enable its gun to be used for the C-UAS role. (French Armed Forces)
France has modified the software of the Dassault Rafale combat aircraft's internal cannon as part of a wider raft of measures to enhance the armed forces' counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) capabilities.
The Directorate General of Armament (Direction Générale de l'Armement: DGA) told the National Assembly on 15 April 2026 that the Rafale's internal 30 mm Giat DEFA 791B cannon has been adjusted to enable it to be used in the C-UAS role in general, and against Iranian Shahed-type one-way attack (OWA) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in particular.
“We have passed a contract to modify the Rafale's fire control system to be able to engage Shaheds at close range with the gun. This was a capability that was wanted by the Armed Forces, and we [have] rapidly contracted Dassault to modify the fire control,” the head of the DGA, Patrick Pailloux, said when answering questions on the update to France's 2024 - 2030 Military Programming Law (LPM), published by the National Assembly on 8 April 2026.
As noted by Pailloux, parallax issues, whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, have previously made it difficult to use the gun to engage these types of targets at close ranges.
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