E&T Mag: Tempest, the stealthy and stress-free future fighter plane

What will a sixth-generation fighter jet look like and be capable of? The UK’s Tempest aircraft, set to take to the skies in 2035, may just demonstrate this.

Fighter pilots of the future will operate in a different world. They’ll have more facts at their fingertips, more help from advanced processing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and laser precision weaponry and drones – aided by algorithms that haven’t even been created yet. This is the UK’s Tempest combat air system, announced in 2018 and under development around the country.

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Tempest: the stealthy and stress-free future fighter plane

Read Helena’s piece on The E&T website.

Environment Science and TechnologyWeb editor