Originally Posted by
Asturias56
tempest is just another gravy train for BAe shareholders TBH - vast amounts of money spent to produce something less good that we can buy of the shelf.
But if you buy it off the shelf you destroy your home grown industry and disperse that talent meaning you become beholden to other Countries to arm you and you cannot guarantee you will get the latest variant nor a full technology transfer. It’s a sad state of affairs, but we have been tied to that route since the about the sixties.