The French will never give up making the Engine to RR and the UK won’t move from a best contractor system.
Basically FCAS is going to come in late, over budget and possibly inferior to Tempest.
It’s a Multi-role, carrier capable plane that is of no use to any country with F-35s or lacking a Carrier.
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That is wishful thinking considering the programs are quite different and have different timescales.
Yeah Italy has wanted this to happen for many months, and they will keep saying that, but I don’t think that our government has the power or influence to make it happen. The timelines of F-35 countries and non-F-35 countries just don’t align for them to move all together to a single European aircraft.
Honestly, I don’t believe either aircraft will ever see the light of day. Team FCAS skipped gen 5 and the whole thing will be a failure with France bullying design and production ratios. Tempest is a technology demonstrator to get accepted as a tier one production partner for the USAF programme.
I thought I recalled France being pretty explicit that they wouldn’t merge in some past articles.
well this smells like bullshit
What’s wrong with having two separate developments in Europe? Makes sense to reduce risk – eg if one gets stuck or has significant failures. In any case – France and UK wouldn’t want to relinquish their primary roles.
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I’ve got news for him, they won’t^
The French will never give up making the Engine to RR and the UK won’t move from a best contractor system.
Basically FCAS is going to come in late, over budget and possibly inferior to Tempest.
It’s a Multi-role, carrier capable plane that is of no use to any country with F-35s or lacking a Carrier.
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That is wishful thinking considering the programs are quite different and have different timescales.
Yeah Italy has wanted this to happen for many months, and they will keep saying that, but I don’t think that our government has the power or influence to make it happen. The timelines of F-35 countries and non-F-35 countries just don’t align for them to move all together to a single European aircraft.
Honestly, I don’t believe either aircraft will ever see the light of day. Team FCAS skipped gen 5 and the whole thing will be a failure with France bullying design and production ratios. Tempest is a technology demonstrator to get accepted as a tier one production partner for the USAF programme.
I thought I recalled France being pretty explicit that they wouldn’t merge in some past articles.
well this smells like bullshit
What’s wrong with having two separate developments in Europe? Makes sense to reduce risk – eg if one gets stuck or has significant failures. In any case – France and UK wouldn’t want to relinquish their primary roles.