Unclear which, if any, will make their way into Tempest - but I like the deflating fuel tank used during transit when LO isn’t required, then deflated and the external weapons/sensors rotated into the internal bay when reaching the A2/AD area.
looking back at some BAE's concepts for internal bays some pop up a, so I'll make a little thread, some of the most interesting one are from the pre-Tempest era (around 2015) and very similar to one of the rotating one here proposed.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...872413101.html
…..and lastly we return to the so loved (by BAE at least it seems) rotating bay, it is the most recent one, being published in 2022, showing that the concept (maybe) is still alive. However there is a twist, it is the comeback of mdular fuel tanks in such bays.
This time it calls for the use of flexible fuel tanks, here called bladders, here it calls for the use of such bladders as means for increase fuel capacity in the non fighting part of mission: using rotating bays to keep the sensors out when the bladder is in use.
And once emptied (trough means that equilizes the pressure to reduce it's size) flipping the rotating bay and get under cover the sensor (or missiles).
More here:
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/pate...n%3DGB2601781A
