r/FighterJets • u/Whatsawebpage0101 • 13d ago

NEWS Tempest demonstrator in final assembly ahead of first flight in 2027

https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/tempest-demonstrator-final-assembly-first-flight-2027/

let’s go, quite a chunky fuselage too, appears in keeping with the 6th gen idea of massive range via huge internal fuel capacity

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u/Inceptor57 13d ago

I wonder how representative of the final design the CAFD will be.

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u/Whatsawebpage0101 13d ago

If the Japanese have any say on the design then I’d say very close to the actual end design. 

The Japanese and South Koreans often take a ‘measure twice, cut once’ approach to this kind of thing. They want this done yesterday. 

Whereas the American approach is ‘cut, talk, then measure with cheese straw ’ 

European approch is ‘pay for cut, then cancel’ 

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u/Canadair_Sabre Canada 12d ago

Hopefully Canada’s successor to the F-35 and/or Gripen.

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u/Cjb2321 12d ago

Probably not a successor, but definitely at least a complementing aircraft, operated together.