Must have misread/fell for something, but why so much into Tempest though? The British military needs some of those funds elsewhere, even if there is a bit of delay on the Tempest, it will mean that the UK won’t cease to exist
Such as?
AJAX integration, more F35s, properly upgrading of Typhoon, getting air tankers, getting an actual AWACS, giving Challenger 3 more parts for maintenance when they run out in a decade or two. Paying the excessive amount of people in most branches, paying people properly, overhaul of the procurement system, and that is only the stuff I can think of or know of.
Is happening?
No? Why buy Fail-35s when we can invest in Tempest?
How are we not? ECRS Mk2, Possibly AMK, Spear-3/EW/Glide, METEOR-MR. etc etc
True
Eh… Not sure if we really need those tbh, but dont we have some?
Perhaps, but the project looks to be coming along very well. Was expecting at least one major issue that would delay it 10 years. Not happened yet.
Never gunna happen :D
So I still dont really see what cutting Tempest funding would really acheive, other than piss the Japanese off.
What I’m saying is that some funding is taken away and diverted and have a slightly longer dev time, 2040 is still very far and Britain, even Japan might not even exist anymore at that point but no point arguing as there is an easy supply of funds waiting in pointless people like the Old Guard or all the admirals that don’t even have ships