Toshiba unveiled a aesa radar meant for GCAP in 2024. Still not sure how each nations GCAP will differ.
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IHI presentation render, it’s quite different from the F-X render and first presented publicly in October last year.
It also has some interesting details animated, including what seems to be 2D thrust vectoring, the fully moving angled tail and these interesting small control fins on the back.
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I’m guessing their all using the same, or maybe britain & Italy are making up something for their own. I might do a little research on it if I can… Have they specified a name for this new radar?
Does look similar to the old render, at least in my opinion. Speaking of 2d tvc, the GCAP model/render engine does look similar to that of the F-22 nozzles could suggest tvc but I find it strange on a 6th gen
So far not that i can find.
We know each nation will contribute to something
“Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, BAE Systems, and Leonardo will work on the aircraft body. They have already planned their roles by fall 2023. IHI in Japan will develop the engine, and Mitsubishi Electric will be in charge of the electronic systems inside the body”
My best guess for what it is is a later depiction of F-X (pre-GCAP) that we just haven’t seen before.
But it being used does suggest that GCAP design isn’t fully locked in. I think what we’re seeing now is the design for the testbed that’s under construction, which is likely going to be for GCAP what YF-22 was for F-22.
I could see TVC being used to minimize movement of the control surfaces as a way to reduce visibility. But it could also just be low visibility design around non-TVC engines.
Hopefully it won’t fall under the F-22 Raptor situation: extremely expensive to maintain and manufacture and actually makes the step further in the new generation aircraft and away from the old but yet active forth generation.
Something straight out of star wars, love it
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The name is badass as well, “Dragonfire”
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Oh look, it’s the same issue plaguing FCAS as well lmao
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From my understanding at least reading what they are talking about it seems U.K might be unwilling to share some specific technologies? I wonder why though considering Italy and Japan are basically sharing everything.
Time to revive this thread lol
Seems like the FCAS fighter is going to be killed soon
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Sorry for the very late response I am not that up to date right now.
I might have to recheck but as far as I’m aware Italy is interested in bringing Germany into the program, so well see how that plays out I guess.
This might also be late news but I might as well bring it up.
anything that combines germany and france in one project always fails
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Would probably be Germanys best choice, even if we only get some privileges to modify it ourselves in exchange for money, but afaik Tempest and FCAS are designed for very different doctrines, so not sure if our military would be happy with that solution. Doing it ourselves (or maybe just with spain and maybe Sweden, dunno if they already have a project going tbh) would probably take too long or be too expensive.
Also, according to Reuters the meeting is currently scheduled for the 11. December
I mean, the Tiger heli was pretty successful I’d say (even if outdated nowadays), but that is very much the exception