Gripen E center fuselage assembly post views (I am amazed as how tick are the aluminum sub part (and hence why they choose to proceed such way with the result being an assembly that is indeed a puzzle of small machined part)). But I guess the idea is that If the fastener hold it together, this thing will fly for a thousand years.

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@Sintra:
No. It started with an underlying competitive process to power the UCAS that was then finalized by an agreement to put an M-88 core into the then combined Fr-UK proposed solution. This means only that whatever the Brits had in mind was modulable enough to be scaled and paired to a foreign design (foreign as non-integrated). Once again this reflect the above underlined points.

B/w someone wrote this at the time:

The timeline is spot on. Decade and a half is precisely the expected timeframe for delivering hardware (whatever hardware FCAS becomes), on top of that, one of the biggest players in every major “Pentagon Jet war” for the last decade has been Rolls Royce Liberty Works, and while i dont have doubts that there are restrictions between RR North America and RR Uk, i would be more than a bit surprised that a great part of the development work done by Liberty Works in things like the F136/ADVENT/etc wouldnt cross fertilise the UK future programs (pretty much what P&W and Snecma did three decades ago with the likes of the TF30/TF306/M53).

Cheers

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UK had an engine for the now defunct UK/Fr UCAS project that must have had enough modularity built in it to accept an M-88 core at a latter phase of its design. When I read also that the future engine would be build with advanced multi-disciplinary modeling technologies, I have no doubt that both are related.

Greek T-2E crashes

The aircraft crashed at 0850 h local time 13 km north of Sparta. The co-pilot ejected and was recovered and transported to hospital, while the pilot was found dead in the crash area.

Probably that’s the Instructor pilot that successfully ejected while the trainee died

Top Gun: Maverick Will Likely Feature F-35C Joint Strike Fighters

With six F-35Cs operating aboard Lincoln since Aug. 20th, USNI News understands, the film crew almost certainly got an up-close look at the Navy’s newest fighters – operating alongside the Super Hornets, the EA-18G Growlers, the E-2 Hawkeye and the C-2 Greyhound.
Asked what role the new jets may play in the movie, Michael Singer, vice president of marketing and publicity for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Television, told USNI News “we are not providing any details about the production at this time.”
[…]
Navy spokesman Lt. Seth Clarke told USNI News that the level of support the Navy will provide is still being worked out, but “I can tell you that U.S. naval aviators will be flying in this movie.”
He added that Lincoln specifically was chosen for filming because “the ship’s schedule was ideal based on the needs of Paramount films at this time.

Source:
USNI.org

That’s a crazy statement. Tempest as a flying demonstrator has technologies that are more advanced than what so far has surfaced from the Franco-German(?) side. If financing is too much a burden, the systems in it will live in other projects. Instead of having a frontal approach with a competitor, complementary or even cross-embedded shared development should be the route to follow on both side (and as in effect it will be easier).
And once again, financially speaking only, there are LESS risks on the UK side than among the “coalescence” of European partners, in every way you turn the problem.