If anything else I hope this pushes Britain and America to investigate appropriate IFF systems for vehicles.

Suprised they didn’t after what happened during gulf war 1 when an A-10 attacked 2 british army vehicles in a similar fashion killing 9 servicemen .
This is what happens when politicians start cutting armed forces budgets

Whoah that new fighter looks like a F-22 and Su-27’s love child

In the 80s, there were alot of good looking aircraft that would have made the grade of raptor/typhoon/jsf killers on the drawing board such as the IML Addax (the Aussie raptor), ALR Piranha etc but they were axed no thanks to US exports

So will there be a single seat version available now that they are gonna make it a proper fighter?

recent advances in Diecast aviation is probably partially to blame. Before the diecast revolution, there was only 3 ways of getting a nice detailed replica of a warbird in your living room: Option one was to buy a extortionate priced mahogany piece that had the most basic details sloppily painted on by sweatshop workers in a third world country. Option 2 was to spend enternity painting, glueing and priming a £6 to £40 model kit . Option 3 was to pay a stonking amount of money (£700 TO £1000) for a fully detailed resin model. Obviously 9/10 ppl chose option 2 . Then came Corgi with its reasonably priced detailed diecast aviation series and then suddenly enthusiasts had a 3rd option on their list and now companies such as Dragon, Witty Wings, Model Power, even Revell dominate the replica aviation market with detailed realistic diecast warbirds that don’t blow the bank balance or need “Some assembly required” .
Airfix should have adapted to the times and launched their own series of prepainted preassembled models to compete with Corgi’s line when the time was right . Its their own fault for not adapting to the times not even releasing a “Easy kit” range that revell did . The irony of this all is that Corgi actually used assembled airfix kits as testshots to higlight their aviation archive range in toyfairs

Makes you wonder why the RAF axed its Small Agile Battlefield Aircraft study . Something like that would be very useful nowadays