Sweden confirms that involvement in Tempest is now officially dead.
"We walked away from tri-lateral studies with UK and Italy about a year ago and launched a national study. I will not answer questions why it didn’t work with the UK and FCAS." - official IFC23
For those who think Europe can't support two next-gen fighter programmes, we may be about to get three!
"It is not decided if we will build a system, develop a system with others, or acquire a system. We can say it will be done both nationally and with partners."
@JanesINTEL story on #Sweden's plans for a next-generation combat aircraft, complete with timeline, to come. FMV visualisation (purely illustrative, I'm sure).