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

The old and the new: a Eurofighter Typhoon sits next to a concept model of Tempest, a vision of the UK's future combat aircraft, at BAE Systems in Warton
The Tempest sixth-generation fighter concept is planned to replace the RAF's Eurofighter Typhoon fleet from the late 2030s.
Those who value aesthetics in aircraft design may be reassured by the reminder that this, now very familiar twin-finned, pelican-nosed configuration - may not be the final Tempest design
The RAF’s forthcoming Tempest combat aircraft, which should be in operational use by 2040, will include a state-of-the-art radar that may incorporate cognitive techniques and distributed arrays among other technologies

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Eurofighter Typhoon / EF-2000 - InternationalInternational - 1994

Air International 2023-06 / J.Lake - Making today's Typhoon fit for tomorrow

Typhoon will provide complementary functional capabilities to the new Tempest and will operate as part of the same system of systems, bringing its sensors and weapons to the fight

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Eurofighter Typhoon / EF-2000 - InternationalInternational - 1994

Air International 2019-08 / M.Ayton - Made in England: Tempest /Military/ (1)

BAE Systems Tempest mock-up at Warton. Under concept development by Team Tempest, the eventual air vehicle remains officially unnamed. What chance that the RAF's next fighter is christened Tempest?

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Eurofighter Typhoon / EF-2000 - InternationalInternational - 1994

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Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has become the latest company to join the Team Tempest effort, which plans to introduce a sixth-generation fighter into UK service in less than 15 years

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Air International 2021-05 / J.Lake - Team Tempest takes a new approach

Tempest will be a 'system of systems' with a manned (or optionally manned) fighter aircraft at its heart - the final design, however, may differ substantially from the configuration featured in BAE Systems’ marketing effort
If realised, the Tempest will transform the RAF into a sixth-generation force, but a number of challenges doubtless lie ahead

Air International 2022-09 / K.Chapman - Farnborough in Focus

PLANS FOR the UK to lead the development of a new, airworthy sixth-generation combat air demonstrator were revealed by UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace during the opening day of FIA on July 18, 2022.

Air International 2021-05 / J.Lake - Team Tempest takes a new approach

This Tempest configuration appears futuristic and ‘stealthy’, and that’s probably why it was chosen to form the basis of full-scale models and press imagery. It looks as you’d expect a midcentury sixth-generation fighter to look - twin-finned, tailless, delta winged. However, the real thing could turn out very differently

Air International 2022-09 / K.Chapman - Farnborough in Focus

The Tempest six-generation fighter programme, part of the UK’s overall FCAS effort, is following a new development model designed to maintain the programme’s ambitious pace

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The new 'Tempest' was revealed as part of a new national Combat Air Strategy on Farnborough's opening day

Air International 2020-07 / T.Newdick - Tempest gathers pace

The full-size concept model for the next-generation Tempest fighter unveiled at Farnborough International Airshow in July 2018.
Current thinking is that by 2040 the Typhoon fleet will be approaching its out-of-service date, with the prospect of its successor, the Tempest, being optionally manned.

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Макет истребителя шестого поколения «Темпест»

Air International 2020-07 / T.Newdick - Tempest gathers pace

Looking every inch the 'sixth-gen' fighter, the Tempest mock-up includes a planform reminiscent of the F-117A, with a sawtooth trailing edge, trapezoidal twin tails and F-35-style engine intakes.

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Один из демонстрационных макетов истребителя «Темпест»

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

Family fleet: The RAF's concept model for the next generation jet fighter "Tempest", F-35B, Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, all seen here in the F-35B hangar at RAF Marham

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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)

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Now with an increased budget, the UK Ministry of Defence has to decide how to invest in the RAF, with advanced programmes - such as Tempest - far into the next decade and beyond, or to upgrade and increase its current force in order to respond to and deter current threats

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Tempest is no longer just an idea or concept on a computer. Tangible progress is bringing the programme to life through innovative projects such as a flying demonstrator. Several concept models have been exhibited relating to the programme at various defence shows

Air International 2022-10 / M.Broadbent - Twin-win

Using the 'digital thread' has helped to speed up the design and test of concept models for Tempest.

Air International 2021-05 / J.Lake - Team Tempest takes a new approach

This view of the Tempest configuration shows to advantage some of the LO characteristics that will feature on whatever configuration is eventually chosen

Air International 2022-10 / M.Broadbent - Twin-win

Tempest model in the wind tunnel

Air International 2022-10 / M.Broadbent - Twin-win

BAE Systems engineers have been using the digital environment to design, test and ‘fly’ Tempest concepts

Air International 2024-04 / J.Lake - A Saudi success story

A sleek new large-scale GCAP model was displayed on the BAE Systems stand at the World Defense Show

Air International 2022-10 / M.Broadbent - Twin-win

BAE Systems’ fuselage demonstrator representing how a future fighter aircraft fuselage could be produced and developed
AT FIA 2022, BAE Systems was keen to demonstrate its recent moves in developing the latest manufacturing technologies by showcasing a representative military fast-jet fuselage that was designed and built in the firm's '4.0 Factory of the Future' at its Warton facility in Lancashire.

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BAE’s fuselage demonstrator in the Factory of the Future at Warton

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Work on the crew escape system began in February 2022, initially with static firings through the canopy, which utilised technology from the BAE Hawk T2

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Four tests were used on the rocket-propelled sled, each with instrumented mannequins of different weights. The fuselage section used in these trials was said to be a “representative forward fuselage design” of the demonstrator

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Working with Martin-Baker, a team of BAE System engineers led the ejection seat trials using a rocket-propelled sled travelling at more than 500mph. The demonstrator aircraft will use the same Martin-Baker Mk16A seat as used in the Eurofighter Typhoon

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

The powerplant system for the demonstrator will incorporate novel technologies and manufacturing processes to produce the engine duct for the intake. The intake will use fewer moving parts to slow down air from supersonic to subsonic speeds before it enters the engine. The intake bending design is to ensure the aircraft’s stealth characteristics

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Tempest engine TDV3/1 intake integration testing in the TP141 testbed at Rolls-Royce’s facility in Filton, Bristol

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Ventures in which EAL might participate include the UK's Future Offensive Air System (1999)
Artist's impression of one possible configuration of a BAe low-observables combat aircraft (1999)

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

The current GCAP concept CGI is similar in planform to the original Tempest mock-up, but is much more slender and streamlined, with a shallower nose section than was seen on what became known as the ‘Pregnant Pelican’

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Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

At a new facility at its site in Warton, Lancashire, test pilots from BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and the RAF have already flown more than 150 hours with the demonstrator aircraft in a bespoke simulator, which is providing critical information to support the later flight trials

Air International 2021-10 / R.Coppinger - Powering the future

Rolls-Royce is taking the lead on the engine for the UK’s Tempest programme for a fifth-generation platform

Air International 2022-06 / P.Felstead - Dawn of a new era

Leonardo’s ISANKE domain concept unlocks the potential of sixth-generation sensors by integrating them as a more crucial part of Tempest’s architecture

Air International 2024-03 / ??? - Breathing fire

BAE has already produced a concept image of a rear-firing laser on Tempest to counter unmanned aircraft and missiles

Air International 2019-08 / M.Ayton - Made in England: Tempest /Military/ (1)

Air International 2021-05 / J.Lake - Team Tempest takes a new approach

A BAE Systems computer-generated concept of the Team Tempest Future Combat Air System. The aircraft is shown launching 'swarming' mini-UAVs.
The core Tempest aircraft will be augmented by a host of adjuncts and effectors, including UAVs of various shapes and sizes, among them 'loyal wingmen' and attritable swarming drones

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

Tempest fighters captured flying over Japan’s most famous landmark, Mount Fuji

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

This Tempest fighter has just buzzed The Shard in central London

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

Tempest fighters fly over Pisa in Italy

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Гипотетическое изображение перспективного британского истребителя «Тайфун»
The Global Combat Aircraft Programme (GCAP) looms large over the Falcon Works endeavour. The next generation Tempest fighter and the Flying Technology Demonstrator that precedes it will leverage technology developed by Falcon Works

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Одно из последних изображений гипотетического истребителя 6‑го поколения GCAP

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Why do we need GCAP?

The new Tempest is much more than a fighter, being optimised for information dominance in a way today’s fifth-generation aircraft are not

Air International 2024-04 / J.Lake - A Saudi success story

John Stocker, BAE Systems FCAS Business Development Director

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

GCAP is all about connectivity and electronic attack, promising complete dominance of the information battle. Compared with today’s fifth-generation tactical aircraft, Tempest will be more easily and rapidly upgradeable, better able to produce and share a fused picture of the battlespace and with vastly superior sensors and weapons capabilities

Air International 2022-06 / P.Felstead - Dawn of a new era

When the UK FCAS programme was launched in July 2018 the goal was to have Tempests flying alongside Typhoons and F-35s by 2035

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

As part of the broad GCAP, for which Tempest is the keystone, other elements will include a ‘loyal wingman’ drone, a new generation of air-launched missiles and sensors

Air International 2023-08 / J.Lake - Veil lifts

Exclusive artwork of BAE’s future technology demonstrator that will serve as the backbone to the development of the Tempest

Air International 2023-11 / M.Broadbent - AI in the sky

Artificial intelligence is one of the disruptive technologies under study in Tempest and GCAS

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

For the UK, Tempest sits at the heart of a system of systems that will include a range of off board sensors, effectors and adjuncts, some space-based. GCAP covers only the manned fighter, meaning that Japan could select different adjuncts and platforms for its combat air family of systems

Air International 2024-04 / P.Townley - Eight Questions

Air International 2024-04 / P.Townley - Eight Questions

The Tempest programme is revolutionising the way Rolls-Royce engines will power FCAS. The aims are to be more electric, more intelligent and to harness more power, any future fighter aircraft will require unprecedented levels of electrical power

Air International 2024-04 / P.Townley - Eight Questions

Air International 2019-09 / M.Ayton - Made in England: Tempest /Military/ (2)

The image shows one vision of the future; a Tempest fighter and a production operative controlling production via a networked tablet.
Fixed jigs will be rare in BAE Systems’ 'factory of the future', but advanced robotics will be clearly in evidence

Air International 2020-07 / T.Newdick - Tempest gathers pace

Another CG concept of the Future Combat Air System, this time showing a production line for Tempest fighters. BAE Systems aims to employ advanced manufacturing capabilities, including robotic and cobotic (collaborative robot) assembly.

Air International 2020-04 / C.Hepburn - Blending Virtual and Real Worlds

An idea of how the future cockpit could look in the Tempest programme, with holographic displays and interactive modelling.

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

Virtual assistant: concept AI-enabled cockpit from BAE Systems. An AI assistant could help lower the cognitive load faced by pilots in the future

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

The future battlespace will see a network of systems interoperating, utilising machine learning, AI analytics and data processing to enable ever-faster decision making

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

A digital thread runs right through the Tempest programme, from concepting, through to design, manufacturing, sustainment and operation
Inside the 'Factory of the Future': the new facility at BAE Systems’ site in Warton, Lancashire. A digitally connected, intelligent factory for future military aircraft production

Air International 2022-10 / M.Broadbent - Twin-win

Digital twins enable manufacturers to study physical behaviours an engine would exhibit under very extreme conditions

Air International 2020-07 / T.Newdick - Tempest gathers pace

An infographic of the Team Tempest Future Combat Air System concept.

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Laying the foundation stone for a cutting-edge superfighter

This infographic shows the ‘headline’ key features of the GCAP manned fighter. None of the features differ from those the FCAS and Tempest have been using since 2018

Air International 2024-02 / J.Lake - Why do we need GCAP?

Smith is agnostic as to what Tempest looks like - “The platform outline is secondary to making sure that we have that integrated sensing, non-kinetic effecting and communication system on there,” he says. Many believe that this Tempest configuration - ‘Concept Class Five’ looks like the F-22 he once flew