Originally Posted by
DuckDodgers
The entire Scorpion effort was being pushed very publicly as part of the QQ/Textron/Thales effort. A certain ex-RN Bagger at Thales was one of the key architects, there were also some other shenanigans within Air Command too along with Commandant AWC. It was very quickly withdrawn once the fast jet requirement was finalised (which it didn't meet) and that there would only be iro 1,930hrs on task for a non-fast jet (biz jet type) capability. As for Inzpire and their partners, it was certainly the priciest bid at mid-£900MM!
I think they were the only team that went public with a platform type….which didn’t go well for them. The others still haven’t acknowledged publicly what platform they were pitching.