[sukhoi-30mki]

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/725600/CombatAirStrategy_Lowres.pdf

[BenLurkin]

Looks.....familiar.....

[Bringbackthedraft]

If it was a Russian Air Craft would it be called the F22ski?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Mariner]

I fear the Brits may be catching the Chinese Syndrome.

Whereby they start to believe if they make something with all the proper external appearance factors, against the same design factors, that it is just as good as the real thing.

They are more concerned with appearing modern and formidable that BEING modern and formidable.

[Captain7seas]

Sharia compliant I am sure.

[Jewbacca]

Vaperware.

[Yo-Yo]

I don't understand all of the 'looks familiar' comments. It's a cranked arrow delta wing, with what I assume to be thrust vectoring nozzles.

If anything, it's a modern take on the Avro Arrow.

[MCF]

I think at this point it is old technology to build piloted fighters. With AI pilotless planes will be far superior in air to air combat.

[GreyFriar]

I wonder if the RAF pilots will give this new Tempest a different name, just like USAF pilots did when the Air Force recycled WWII aircraft name of Thunderbolt into Wart Hog?

[nuke_road_warrior]

Tempest, Typhoon have the Brits run out of names, so they keep recycling WWII fighters? How about Hurricane, Spitfire, Camel?

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: he wanted the Tempest to be flying alongside the existing fleet of Typhoons and the US-made F-35s by 2035.

That is near 20 years from now!
We will have flying cars by then....

[bunkerhill7]

But will it fit in a teapot?

[NYAmerican]

Is it safe to assume this this wonderful, state of the art weapon is intended to target right wing haters, while protecting the hordes of innocent and heroic Muslim “immigrants”? I mean, any other purpose would be unthinkable......