UK Defense Is Facing Pain Before Technological Gain

Tony Osborne March 24, 2021
UK Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoons
Retiring the Tranche 1 Typhoons in 2025 will allow the UK to focus investment on upgrades for the later Tranche 2/3 aircraft, including new radars and the Spear 3 missile.
Credit: Tony Osborne/AW&ST
UK defense will invest in high technology as it pivots its focus to the Indo-Pacific region and China. But research and development funding for capabilities in cyber, unmanned systems, space, directed-energy weapons and hypersonics will come at a price, with dozens of aircraft being cut from the...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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