Team Tempest working on the sixth generation British fighter of the same name and the Royal Air Force (RAF) showed more images of this aircraft.
In a posting on the agency’s website, it is noted that the main contractors of the program, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Leonardo and MBDA, held a virtual briefing in December, which provided “a detailed view of the work being carried out under the Tempest project.” … It also reports that Tempest currently employs over 600 organizations, including small and medium-sized enterprises and academia.
In September, the United States Air Force Director of Procurement Will Roper declared that The Pentagon as part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, in secrecy, conducted flight tests of a full-scale demonstration of the sixth generation fighter.
In July, the Royal Air Force of Great Britain showed a promo video of the fighter on Twitter “next” (sixth) generation.
In July 2018, the French company Dassault Aviation published on its YouTube- Channel video depicting a European fifth generation fighter. The aircraft is expected to replace the fourth generation fighters Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
Work on Tempest started in 2018. The fighter should be ready in 2035. The development cost is estimated at £ 2 billion ($ 2.54 billion). The British company BAE Systems was appointed the lead developer of the aircraft. The fighter, which is to replace the fourth-generation aircraft Eurofighter Typhoon, will feature a high degree of automation and digitalization, and will also receive hypersonic weapons.