British/Italian Tempest (GCAP) Fighter : News and Discussion

[Ashwin]

Japan and Britain’s New GCAP Fighter is Exceptionally Large and Expensive: Tokyo’s Range Requirements Raise Costs"These requirements...have contributed to cost projections of close to $600 million per aircraft"

Japan and Britain’s New GCAP Fighter is Exceptionally Large and Expensive: Tokyo’s Range Requirements Raise Costs

Japan’s requirements for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) have helped drive the development of an unusually large fighter, reflecting Tokyo’s need for substantially greater range, weapons capac…

militarywatchmagazine.com

 

[Bon Plan]

Japan and Britain’s New GCAP Fighter is Exceptionally Large and Expensive: Tokyo’s Range Requirements Raise Costs"These requirements...have contributed to cost projections of close to $600 million per aircraft"

Japan and Britain’s New GCAP Fighter is Exceptionally Large and Expensive: Tokyo’s Range Requirements Raise Costs

Japan’s requirements for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) have helped drive the development of an unusually large fighter, reflecting Tokyo’s need for substantially greater range, weapons capac…

militarywatchmagazine.com

How many units will they be able to purchase?

 

[Optimist]

"One 2025 British capability outline cited a potential weapons payload roughly twice that of an F-35A and enough internal fuel for a transatlantic crossing without aerial refuelling. These requirements, and the demonstrated inefficiencies of Europe’s combat aviation industry, have contributed to cost projections of close to $600 million per aircraft, compared to approximately $90 million for the U.S. F-35A. "

The Rafale and Eurofighter are dearer than the F-35, apple to apple
the $90m is a basic flyaway cost, a package runs $250m, The estimated $600m will need to be qualified as to what it includes

If the FCAS gets up, it will have a comparable cost to the GCAP