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Just to pass it on, it looks like a Tempest TD will get the go ahead.

UK states economic case for Tempest ahead of FCAS concept phase

The industrial partners in the Tempest project have stated the financial benefits to the United Kingdom over the next 30 years, ahead of the launch of the concept phase...
www.janes.com www.janes.com

With an FCAS demonstrator and a Tempest demonstrator coming from Europe, I imagine that a lot will be revealed about the technologies the Europeans are proposing for the two types. They might give a hint as to what could be in AMCA Mk2.
 
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Spitfire9 said:
Just to pass it on, it looks like a Tempest TD will get the go ahead.

UK states economic case for Tempest ahead of FCAS concept phase

The industrial partners in the Tempest project have stated the financial benefits to the United Kingdom over the next 30 years, ahead of the launch of the concept phase...
www.janes.com www.janes.com

With an FCAS demonstrator and a Tempest demonstrator coming from Europe, I imagine that a lot will be revealed about the technologies the Europeans are proposing for the two types. They might give a hint as to what could be in AMCA Mk2.
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Tempest look like huge , f 22 type . So britian is prioritizing it's projects after those cut in tank fleet and f 35 numbers
 
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Lonewolf said:
Tempest look like huge , f 22 type . So britian is prioritizing it's projects after those cut in tank fleet and f 35 numbers
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Quick check on lengths from different sources:
F-22 ~19m length
Tempest ~19m length
AMCA ~17.2m length
F-35 ~15.4m length

Tempest may turn out to be a different size in the end.

UK has defence reviews every few years. I think the latest one is looking for higher performance hardware but less personnel for RAF.

Going back 15 years or more, F-35 was intended to have operating costs roughly in line with F-16. Not what has happened, as far as I know. That may be one reason why UK decided to investigate developing a 5G+ fighter.
 
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Spitfire9 said:
Quick check on lengths from different sources:
F-22 ~19m length
Tempest ~19m length
AMCA ~17.2m length
F-35 ~15.4m length

Tempest may turn out to be a different size in the end.

UK has defence reviews every few years. I think the latest one is looking for higher performance hardware but less personnel for RAF.

Going back 15 years or more, F-35 was intended to have operating costs roughly in line with F-16. Not what has happened, as far as I know. That may be one reason why UK decided to investigate developing a 5G+ fighter.
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The reason uk is developing tempest is to protect domestic know how otherwise British aerospace industry will loose it's technical expertise and will be just a tier 2 vendor for us aerospace .

That requires massive investment into British r&d and that requires a massive program like tempest .
 
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