BAE Systems has been awarded a contract extension worth £656 million to progress the next generation combat aircraft, Tempest.
The new funding will build on the ground-breaking science, research and engineering already completed under the first phase of the contract delivered by the aerospace and defence giant in partnership with Leonardo UK, MBDA UK and Rolls-Royce.
The UK Tempest team, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, will take forward more than 60 cutting-edge technology demonstrations and digital concepts, described as critical to the UK’s sovereign defence capability. They will help shape the final requirements – together with the Global Combat Air Programme partners in Japan and Italy – for the combat air platform, due to enter service with the Royal Air Force by 2035.
