Tempest Demonstrator Will Ready UK Skills And Industrial Capability

Team Tempest demonstrator concept
The Team Tempest industry partners unveiled a new public design for the Tempest crewed fighter at the Farnborough International Airshow, adopting a YF-23-like butterfly tail similar to that in concepts for Japan’s F-X program and in BAE’s Replica low-observable demonstrator work.
Credit: Tony Osborne/AW&ST
Industry has begun building a demonstrator for the UK’s Tempest Future Combat Air System that will derisk the technologies to enable rapid development of a UK-led combat aircraft for the 2040s. Metal has been cut on the crewed, supersonic aircraft—development of which had been cloaked under a veil...

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