The UK’s future flagship jet – known as Tempest – is set to be a sixth-generation stealth aircraft, equipped with advanced weapons and radars, with the ability to fly at supersonic speeds in a step up ...

Britain’s Global Combat Air Programme—better known as Tempest—is London’s shot at rejoining the cutting edge of airpower in ...

In this episode, we trace the RAF’s lineage from the Typhoon to the ambitious Tempest and sift the few facts from a lot of informed speculation. We break down the consortium behind “Team Tempest,” the ...

Development for the new Tempest sixth-generation fighter is moving on with some revolutionary concepts. Team Tempest and the Royal Air Force recently held a virtual event to provide an update about ...

The companies building the UK's Tempest sixth-generation fighter aircraft have revealed some of the technological concepts that it will incorporate, including a radar system designed to handle as much ...

So, the new government – up to and including Sir Keir Starmer – are refusing to confirm that the ongoing “Tempest” fighter project, aka the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), will go ahead. It would ...

As the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) upcoming Tempest fighter inches closer to a finalized design, the next generation of British airpower doctrine begins to take shape. The Tempest fighter concept was ...

The UK Royal Air Force intends to use the Eurofighter Typhoon as a “testbed” for new development methods and technologies that will be employed on the forthcoming Tempest sixth-generation fighter. The ...

Last Monday, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense presented a Command Paper to Parliament outlining plans to radically transform the British military in the 2020s. Alongside significant cuts and ...

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Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said Tuesday that Royal Air Force leaders told her that the British military’s new Tempest program is not meant to compete with the company’s robust F-35 fighter ...