Future Horizons: The Tempest Podcast
Episodes
Want to be a part of Generation Tempest?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Generation Tempest is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the UK’s emerging engineering talent to shape the future of UK combat air. But what doe...
Episode 18 - Secure at home, strong abroad
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Strategic Defence Review described international alliances and partnerships as the bedrock of global stability becoming even more important to the...
Episode 17 - Inspiring Generation Tempest
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The previous episode of Future Horizons focused on the rewarding opportunities for Senior Qualified Experienced Professionals. In this episode, we tak...
Episode 16 - Choosing Defence as a career
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UK Government estimates that UK defence spending supports around 434,000 highly skilled and well-paid jobs in all regions and nations of the UK. Despi...
Episode 15 - What Team Tempest will deliver for the UK
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first two episodes of this series, we explored the capability being developed by Team Tempest that will enable the UK, and particularly the Roy...
Episode 14 – Meeting UK operational needs
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a special edition of the Future Horizons podcast, we join forces with InsideAir, the official podcast of the Royal Air Force, to investigate just h...
Episode 13 - Why FCAS matters
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Future Horizons is back with an all new cast and brand new artwork! Just ahead of the Farnborough Air Show last year, the new UK Government launched i...
GCAP lands at Farnborough Air Show 2024
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Six years on from the launch of Team Tempest at Farnborough International Air Show in 2018, this year’s air show played host to the Global Combat Ai...
Opportunities for all - Team Tempest INWED Special
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent report by Engineering UK, the charity recorded a “small but significant” decline in the number of women working in engineering and tec...
Episode 12 - Introducing Generation Tempest - TECN and the future
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An essential pillar of the Team Tempest programme is capturing the imagination of the next generation of engineers and aviators, The Tempest Early Car...
Episode 11 - Digital Transformation and the 4th Industrial Revolution
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Delivering a sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035 is an ambitious goal which will require Team Tempest to utilise the full power of digitisation. In t...
Episode 10 - The FCAS Sustainability Strategy - a bold vision for future
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2024, Team Tempest published the Future Combat Air System Sustainability Strategy, which outlined the changes needed to drive a more susta...
Episode 9 - A national endeavour: The UK’s first flying combat air demonstrator in 40 years
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of Future Horizons, we look at how Team Tempest is working with a dynamic supply chain to deliver a flying combat air demonstra...
Episode 8 - The Right Direction - Mentoring across Team Tempest
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An essential pillar of the team Tempest programme is capturing the imagination of the next generation of engineers and aviators. The Tempest Early car...
Episode 7 - Welcome to the Global Combat Air Programme
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is a partnership and ambitious endeavour between the UK, Japan and Italy to work together to deliver the next g...
Team Tempest Roundtable highlights
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of the Future Horizons - Tempest podcast, we have teamed up with the Royal Aeronautical Society for an update on the Future Co...
Conversations from Farnborough International Airshow 2022
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this summer, Tempest returned to the Farnborough International Air Show - the spiritual birthplace of the programme following its unveiling in...
Future Horizons - Summer 2022 Air Show Special
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this summer 2022 air show special, Future Horizons podcast host, Zevi Watmough speaks with UK MOD Director Future Combat Air, Richard Berthon. In t...
Episode 6 - An international endeavour
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of series 1 of Future Horizons: The Tempest Podcast, we learn about Tempest’s exciting steps on to the international stage fo...
Episode 5 - A catalyst for change
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fifth episode of Future Horizons explores women’s contribution to defence and the important role women are playing on the Tempest programme, as ...
Episode 4 - Putting prosperity in the Pilot's seat
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to episode four of Future Horizons, where in part one, we explore the findings of a new report which analyses Tempest’s projected impact on t...
Episode 3 – More than meets the eye
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this third episode of the six-part series, we look beyond the core Tempest partners to shine a spotlight on how the project is becoming a true nati...
Episode 2 – A commitment to securing the information advantage
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of the six-part series, we discuss the implications of the UK Government's Integrated Review for Tempest and the aerospace indu...
Episode 1 – The Story So Far
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of this exciting six-part series, we provide an insight into Team Tempest UK - comprising the Royal Air Force Rapid Capability Of...