UK seeks ‘flexible’ approach to Tempest fighter aircraft partnerships

Tempest project is dead.

He is right though.

It's another European joint development

>Announce new project will be the most bestest ever
>Partner up with other europoors because lol no money to develop on your own
>Spend decades coming up with half baked prototype
>Other countries leave
>Deliver first production model 12 years later

Rinse and repeat

FCAS is likely to turn out some form of product, simple because Germany doesn't want to partner with Britain anymore, and the French can't afford to develop something on their own this time around.

>French can't afford to develop something on their own
You mean BAE

Looking at the list of "potential" partners.

That thing must be ITAR free. Otherwise why would nations like Turkey or India seriously consider Tempest.

Because military projects routinely are developed by 3-4 US states together, right?
Your average European country is much much smaller than the US, it only makes sense to develop stuff together

Because there is the British delusion that all those European developements "failed" because based UK was forced to work with other nations.
Ignoring that the purely British projects like their naval ships have seen way worse cost overruns and delays in combination with capabilities reduction. Or just went nowhere like that Challenger mid life upgrade.

I'm aware that the airframe design doesn't exist. But couldn't they render something better looking? That CG concept is so fucking ugly, holy shit.

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From being pioneers of the gas turbine (steam and fuel) to having to beg for money to create new fighter jet...how the mighty have fallen.

Rudolph Hess tried to warn them but they didn't listened.

Dassault can't afford it either. A new ground-up carrier-capable plane is more expensive to develop nowadays compared to the Rafale in the late '80s.

Blame Thatcher.

At the end of the industrial age. Thatcher used the opurtunity to destroy the working class, while France and Germany transitioned to a post-industrial state with maintaining as much industry as possible.

You can destroy the working class without blowing the fuck up out of your industrial base.
And she didn't just obliterate the heavy industry. Britain had a very strong electronics/computer industry prior to her taking an axe to everything that wasn't banking.

They will actually just deny it that anything went wrong with them. In fact I habe seen using the Type 45 as example of good British engineering.

>Dassault can't afford it either. A new ground-up carrier-capable plane is more expensive to develop nowadays compared to the Rafale in the late '80s.
>implying rafale hasn't been more successful in fighter sales than euroshitter and upgraded up-to-date
Oh right, bongs are subhumans

>Thatcher used the opurtunity to destroy the working class

Go back to whatever socialist shithole board you came from.

She didn't destroy the working class. The British working class destroyed by decades of socialist governments that had left British industry uncompetitive and inefficient. She just took them off life support so that people could be more productive elsewhere.

>She didn't destroy the working class.

She was in a fucking war with the unions. And after she won, all those once proud Biritsh companies died one by one.

Not only that, but also very importantly have virtually all western countries (except the US) pretty massively cut down their defence spending compared to the cold war era.

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Sounds a lot like russian projects, except for the "other countries" bit.

Military spending as % of GDP is not a very useful metric since most economies have grown considerably in the last 20 years, while military budgets have largely remained static post-1989.
The US military budget as % of GDP has dropped to almost a third. Used to be around 9% in the late '60s, it's now just a bit over 3%.

But UK knows better

kek

>But UK knows better
>meanwhile their entire technology would be rusting without outside investors
You need concede to a certain extent, otherwise you'll go bankrupt in no time.

I actually like how the Bongs claim that it was always Germany, France or whatever who pullsed bullshit.

But we are in a timeline where no one wants to do something with the UK

To call it the Rimuru

janes.com/article/90364/bae-systems-exploits-synergies-between-typhoon-and-tempest?from_rss=1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

UKGov literally ghosted the French last year, when they tried to contact MoD regarding continuing joint development on the new combat drone.

hahaha

I know this thing is early in the developmental phase, but if they keep up throwing retarded buzzwords like this I'm gonna have a fucking explosive diarrhea. A faceful of vomit and piss would have more meaning than whatever fancy words their underpaid interns choose.

Tempest actually feels like some weird scam to get some funding for Eurofighter upgrades.

I could buy it, honestly. Like they'd have a cargo cult-y team cooking up mockups and sick CG trailers while the other would be going 'but how do we put this money into the Typhoon?'