High priorities for Future Combat Air Demonstrator flight tests include low-observability attributes and release of a weapon from a bay at subsonic and supersonic speeds.
Credit: BAE Systems
BAE Systems has adopted a modestly swept, cropped delta-wing planform for the combat air demonstrator that is meant to derisk development of the fighter that will emerge from the Global Combat Air Program. Intended to prove the UK’s approach to low observability and release of internally housed...
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