From 2018 to early 2021, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Procurement and Strategy Will Roper made significant efforts to uphold his conception of what should be the design of a fighter jet today. 'hui. Breaking with the paradigms inherited from the 50s on the basis of one-piece projects, he advocated the use of modern engineering techniques, in particular those borrowed from software development, to quickly and efficiently design high-performance devices, based on technological bricks. existing ones, in order to reduce costs and delays. The first program designed in this way was the T-7A Red Hawk, the new US Air Force trainer designed by Boeing and Saab, which will also inherit the prefix "eT-7" supposed to be affixed upstream. designations of all the devices in this digital series, or “digital series”.
The model has apparently convinced the British authorities, in charge of the Tempest program. Indeed, the new Royal Air Force pilot training device, intended to replace the BAe Hawks from 2035, will be designed on the basis of these same paradigms. Like the US Air Force with the eT-7, the Royal Air Force therefore entrusted the company aerialis, in charge of this program, mandate to use this approach, both with the objective of reducing costs and delays, and to acquire experience and know-how in this type of engineering.
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