FOAS

I think Taranis is of interest to some people (and that is more uniquely British than Concorde). I do agree though, that without having any context to these models, they are just that. I mean BAE had some real cutting edge designs in the 90s, and now it makes the ar$e of the F35 for a living.

BAe’s real money comes from asset-stripping small companies it buys up. And buying small US firms to sell to the US government.

I think Taranis is of interest to some people (and that is more uniquely British than Concorde). I do agree though, that without having any context to these models, they are just that. I mean BAE had some real cutting edge designs in the 90s, and now it makes the ar$e of the F35 for a living.

And yet without the resources or political commitment required to bring a project to fruition, it may as well be a child’s crayon drawing. The UK hasn’t built anything interesting for forty years now (i.e. since Concorde and Harrier) and that seems unlikely to change going forward.

It’s more the propulsion model that is interesting here IMOHO*. The hell with a radar when you’ve to deal with an advanced tech demo 😉

*We can guess that the V-tail arrangement is just an addition for low-speed/early flight configuration or simply outside the aerodynamic envelope tested with no or few impact on it.

Yes this is true. What I was referring to, was when Replica was unveiled and/or videos of it being trundled out for pole-testing appeared, a lot of people commented on the tiny nose and made a connection between that and it’s having a radar of any use. I think BAE decided that a big nose was not necessary for their future fighter designs, although they weren’t on their own I’m sure.

It does share the same tiny nose of Replica. Adds support to the idea that BAE were working on a different approach to radar distribution.

Not only BAE. FCAS 😉

It does share the same tiny nose of Replica. Adds support to the idea that BAE were working on a different approach to radar distribution.

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Well thanks! Its not every day that i see a design that i am entirely unaware.

That design is so… different!

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Ooh, nothing like a thread resurrection.

Found this new and very interesting link on the Secret Projects forum, to an otherwise unknown BAE FOAS design:

https://www.airsciences.org.uk/fast_news_2016.html

Such a novel approach to things, might go some way to explaining why BAE is suddenly getting all this LO consultancy work around the world…

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