Air International 2025-01 / J.Lake - Is there a European 'Sixth Generation' future outside FCAS/SCAF and GCAP?

This Saab loyal wingman concept was tested in the L-2000 wind tunnel at the Royal Technical High School, Stockholm, in December 2021 and subsequently 'broke cover' in September 2022, when it was presented as part of an academic paper at the 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), in Stockholm

Air International 2025-01 / J.Lake - Is there a European 'Sixth Generation' future outside FCAS/SCAF and GCAP?

Another unmanned Saab KFS concept. This was first seen accompanying an interview with Peter Nilsson, Saab's Head of Advanced Programs in Dagens Nyheter, on August 24, 2024

Air International 2025-01 / J.Lake - Is there a European 'Sixth Generation' future outside FCAS/SCAF and GCAP?

Saab has been at pains to point out that it is studying dozens of potential configurations for KFS, manned and unmanned, and that this is merely one of those and should not be taken as being indicative of the company's 'direction of travel'

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: SAAB Gripen E / JAS-39E - ШвецияSweden - 2017

Air International 2025-01 / J.Lake - Is there a European 'Sixth Generation' future outside FCAS/SCAF and GCAP?

Some configurations studied by Saab have been modular, with both crewed and uncrewed versions. This one was seen during a presentation by a senior Saab manager