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BAE Tempest

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Stealth fighter concept to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon, developed through Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme and Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). Unmanned aircraft accompanied during flight by swarm of drones. Under development.

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted, Autonomous

Engine type

Turbojet

Application

Fighter

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Wing

Composite

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

Bleed air

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Avionics architecture

IMA

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Mid

Planform

Delta

Tail

Canard

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Certification

Military

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Additive-manufactured structural parts Planned Head-up display Standard Synthetic vision Standard Enhanced vision (EVS/EFVS) Standard

Technical reference compiled with AI research; a value appears only where two independent research passes and a web fact-check agree. Gaps are deliberate.

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
BAE Tempest	2015 /		Sixth-generation jet fighter.

Airframer

BAE Systems plc

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