RIP Your Majest - my Queen.

The Turks are on a mission to overhaul their defence infrastructure and remove as much of the American "veto" over their defence and foreign policy as possible. If you consider they are a country of avbout 85 million, with an econonmy of that by "PPP" is similar to the UK - then ...

This why Tempest has to be ITAR free !!!!! If it is not - then the Americans have a veto on the sale of the Tempest which then allows them to pimp their wares to them.

An interesting Twitter thread, touching on Sweden's perspective of Tempest and where they see themselves in connection to the project: https://twitter.com/GarethJennings3/status/1563129008354897920?t=3lF_kwasMpazUP7kWgddeg&s=19 "We are not out of the programme, but there has been a hiberna...

Excellent news. With Japan onboard, it does help derisk the programme as they have a more mature approach to development commitments than the approach the French/Germans take.

but the real question is what does Ukraine have that let them hit targets at that range + distance !!!!!

That is no clumsy russian dropping a fag or a weapon in the wrong place - those are military hits for sure.

Shocking - truly shock - no rules for the russians at all.

This is why i am in favour of sending as much as ukraine can absorb so that the ukranians can throw out these invaders from their homelands..

https://aviationweek.com/shownews/farnborough-airshow/tempest-demonstrator-will-ready-uk-skills-industrial-capability?elqTrackId=90454C98CB94C7828E00680D5A8DA497&elqTrack=true Stating metal already being cut for it! Excellent news. Something real and flying is a bit more difficult to cancel ( r...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-best-look-yet-at-chinas-j-35-carrier-capable-stealth-fighter Interesting read - China is really starting to go places with her aviation industry - and has truly left Russia behind interms of airframes, and avionics design. Engines are still a work in progres...

Nice read - recommend : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/l ... five-years

The war in Ukraine has not been a good advertising board for Russian weapons for sure. India is looking to diversify so the era of buying another new type of fighter jet from Russia is over. India is looking to have a make in India at the core of every procurement. Buying a USA fighter will be an in...

Good to see positive news on Tempest - i do truly hope that Sweden and Italy continue. Given the recent UK / Sweden(+Finland) defence pact - i suspect they will continue their involvement. Italy is less predictable to me.

I just hope the new coup-conspirators of Rushi and Javid do not get a look in as the new PM and also do not ever get any high office of state ever again - ever - then i wont be as angry... Sad to see Bojo go now - I had hoped he had resolved the N.Ireland issue before all this happened - guess the &...

Interesting developments by Turkey - very close to be able to field the bulk of its armed forces from its own resources at the rate that they are progressing.

The engine for TF-X as yet is still unresolved - would be interesting to see what happens on that front eventually..

Submarine hunter planes needed https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/19/submarine-hunter-planes-needed-expansionist-russia-ramps-spy/ Britain needs to expand its arsenal of submarine hunter planes by a third to combat Russian spy operations on our borders, senior RAF commanders have warned.

Interesting viewpoint on the future of war/airwarefar from the lesssons learnt from Ukraine. How it will affect the Tempest programme is interesting.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... air-power/

I am shocked people think that Germany is a viable industrial partner given their decision making over Ukraine.

Best the UK keeps Germany and France at arms length until Tempest is done - and then they are welcome to buy them off manufacturing lines in the UK ..

Looks like a good tank. Hopefully the UK can get back to designing its own tanks after Challenger 3 is done. Best to not rely on Germany for the next generation seeing how they have behaved in supplying Ukraine ... This does feel like fallout from French posturing over the FCAS programme to me ?? Th...

I would have no issue with both Germany and Spain joining the development phase of Tempest. It would be the production phase where I would want to lock both down to whatever number they decided to purchase to ensure we did not repeat the issues that arose in the Eurofighter programme. I see these t...

Well apart from Jaguar they’ve developed everything else on their own, and sold mostly outside Europe, “solo SCAF” would be business as usual. Maybe India comes in attracted by the nuclear angle India has had a painful time with the learning experience that was Tejas, but in doing so they have lear...

Team from Argentina evaluated JF-17 in Chengdu http://alert5.com/2022/05/22/team-from-argentina-evaluated-jf-17-in-chengdu/ https://dangdai.com.ar/2022/05/20/la-embajada-en-beijing-recibio-a-una-mision-militar/ JF17 Block IIIs with CM400's and PL15E's would significantly upgrade Argentina's airpowe...

It is politics - Turkey is of course within her rights to use this as leverage to further her own political military and economic interests and Turkey has expressed concern with the nordic countries harbouring people it considers as terrorrists. ie Turkey has its own logic which it has expressed and...

The other part of the equation for Brimstone is how is the initial targetting done? I guessing UAV? If so - then that could suggest integration with TB2's or other UAV's.

What has the UK provided to Ukraine that could provide the initial targetting?

More Northern Europe than Eastern but thought this was interesting commitment. Not sure how cast iron it would be without a formal Treaty being signed: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-promises-to-defend-finland-and-sweden-if-invaded/ True - and there maybe a treaty that follows this announc...