Aircraft
Tempest On Course To Be an Air Combat Game-changer
While the Tempest has become a trinational program, the UK’s industrial team is already making good progress with technology demonstrations.
The Tempest fighter serves as the centerpoint of a wider future combat air system. (Photo: BAE Systems)
The Tempest fighter serves as the centerpoint of a wider future combat air system. (Photo: BAE Systems)

Speakers at a series of FIA Connect webinars this week have underlined the revolutionary way in which the Tempest program partners have undertaken development of a future combat air system (FCAS), as well as its significant effects on the national skills base, economy, defense industrial capabilities, and the ability of air forces to maintain an operational advantage.