Air International 2021-11 / News: Commercial, Military

The Mosquito demonstrator (in the foreground), which will inform the UK's LANCA requirement, will be of a similar size to the future Tempest fighter (in the background)

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: BAE Systems Tempest - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 2026

Air International 2021-09 / S.Beal - Future force

Loyal wingman? Computer-generated image of the Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA). Cheap and therefore expendable, the LANCA project aims to ‘bulk out' the RAF’s fleet of crewed fighters
Spirit AeroSystems and Northrop Grumman UK are involved in the UK's 'loyal wingman' project
Autonomous systems such as LANCA will continue to be a focus for UK defence

Air International 2024-06 / J.Lake - Killer drones of tomorrow

Britain terminated the Mosquito programme in June 2022, in favour of smaller, less costly, but still highly capable additive capabilities which had "specific uses cases." The Spirit Aerosystems air vehicle may have also raised concerns due to its US and ITAR concerns, without the prospect of a USAF order

Air International 2022-06 / T.Fish - Combat autonomy

Northrop Grumman was contracted in April 2021 as an engineering partner to support Phase 2 testing on the UK's Mosquito loyal wingman project led by Spirit AeroSystems alongside Intrepid Minds. The companies will be designing and manufacturing a prototype uncrewed fighter