RAF Targets Technology As Review Shapes UK Armed Forces

Tony Osborne September 21, 2020
RAF Future Combat Air System Tempest
The wind seems to be blowing in the right direction for the RAF’s Future Combat Air System to replace the Typhoon in the 2030s.
Credit: BAE Systems
The British Armed Forces are engaged in a technology race—as opposed to an arms race—as they look to gain the advantage in the government’s upcoming Integrated Review. Ministers have promised that the review—the largest since the end of the Cold War-—will provide direction for post-Brexit Britain’s...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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