"Unapproachable electronic fortress" - Europeans about the promising 6 fighter of the Tempest generation
The development team of the promising European fighter, declared as the 6 generation fighter, said that the model previously presented at the September international DSEI arms exhibition "will not have much in common with the final model."
We are talking about a combat vehicle with the working name Tempest. Companies from Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Sweden are working on a project to create it. The general development team was called Team Tempest.
What are the plans of the designers?
It is stated that the technology demonstrator of the European multipurpose 6 generation fighter will be created by 2025, and the prototype will appear by 2035.
As it turns out, the main emphasis will be placed on the ability of the aircraft to carry out combat operations in the setting of any electronic interference from the enemy with the counteraction to information loss during the exchange thereof. The name of the project echoes the Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Standard - TEMPEST technology, which is associated with the ability to intercept classified information based on the reception of so-called spurious radiation.
The fighter created by Europeans is positioned as an “impregnable electronic fortress” - in the sense that all information transmitted and received by it will be reliably protected from electronic interception.
At the same time, critics of this approach note that while developers are thinking about technologies to counter modern electronic warfare systems, the very principles of jamming are being improved. By 2035, what would today be an “impregnable electronic fortress” could well become a “sieve” due to the development of technology in intercepting information and disrupting the communication channels of the enemy.
Meanwhile, the developers of the promising fighter say that he will be able to take more weapons than, for example, the F-35, and add that the aircraft will use a laser gun. At the same time, they hope that in a few years they will be able to implement a technology to reduce the size of the energy storage device for servicing a combat laser.
We are talking about a combat vehicle with the working name Tempest. Companies from Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Sweden are working on a project to create it. The general development team was called Team Tempest.
What are the plans of the designers?
It is stated that the technology demonstrator of the European multipurpose 6 generation fighter will be created by 2025, and the prototype will appear by 2035.
What do Europeans currently mean by sixth generation fighter core technology?
As it turns out, the main emphasis will be placed on the ability of the aircraft to carry out combat operations in the setting of any electronic interference from the enemy with the counteraction to information loss during the exchange thereof. The name of the project echoes the Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Standard - TEMPEST technology, which is associated with the ability to intercept classified information based on the reception of so-called spurious radiation.
The fighter created by Europeans is positioned as an “impregnable electronic fortress” - in the sense that all information transmitted and received by it will be reliably protected from electronic interception.
At the same time, critics of this approach note that while developers are thinking about technologies to counter modern electronic warfare systems, the very principles of jamming are being improved. By 2035, what would today be an “impregnable electronic fortress” could well become a “sieve” due to the development of technology in intercepting information and disrupting the communication channels of the enemy.
Meanwhile, the developers of the promising fighter say that he will be able to take more weapons than, for example, the F-35, and add that the aircraft will use a laser gun. At the same time, they hope that in a few years they will be able to implement a technology to reduce the size of the energy storage device for servicing a combat laser.
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