https://sldinfo.com/2019/02/an-update-on-the-future-combat-air-systems-program-february-2019/
Parly also announced a €115 million contract for a feasibility study, dubbed Turenne 2, in which Safran will develop new turbine blades for the M88 engine, which powers the Rafale fighter jet.
The new blades are expected to boost the M88’s thrust to nine tons compared to the present 7.5 tons.
he joint concept study seeks to define architecture and concepts of the Next Generation Fighter, a pack of “remote carriers,” and missiles. These elements are due to be hooked up in the Future Combat Air System, a system of systems.
By: halloweene - 2nd March 2019 at 17:31
I didn’t interphere on Rafale thread for some reasons FBW.
By: FBW - 2nd March 2019 at 00:04
I think we can kill this extra thread now that the original is back. Let Halloweene get his post on now that the Rafale thread has stalled into a flat spin (appropriate metaphor given the discussion there)
By: St. John - 1st March 2019 at 18:18
at this current stage, which of the 5th/6th gen European fighters is likely to be developed all the way? the British effort or the German/French one?
Difficult answer. When you look at the state of availability in the German AF it certainly isn’t a good omen though.
By: Vans - 1st March 2019 at 14:21
at this current stage, which of the 5th/6th gen European fighters is likely to be developed all the way? the British effort or the German/French one?
By: FBW - 1st March 2019 at 13:17
FCAS got Brexited
By: TomcatViP - 26th February 2019 at 22:32
115 millions d’euros pour des aubes de nouvelle génération (études dites « Turenne 2 »). Ces études permettront de gagner 150 degrés d’ici 2025 sur la température des turbines haute pression des moteur. « Aujourd’hui, un moteur de Rafale supporte une température déjà très élevée d’environ 1850 degrés, il s’agit de rendre un moteur capable de supporter une température d’environ 2000 degrés. Ce type de développement technologique est essentiel pour le développement du moteur de l’avion de combat du futur », explique le ministère des Armées.
————————————————115 million euros for new generation [M88’s] blades (so-called “Turenne 2” studies). These studies will make it possible to gain 150 degrees by 2025 on the temperature of the high-pressure engine turbines. “Today, a Rafale engine withstands an already very high temperature of about 1850 degrees, which is to make an engine capable of withstanding a temperature of about 2000 degrees. This type of technological development is essential for the development of the engine of the combat aircraft of the future, “explains the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
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February 26, 2019 at 5:15 pm