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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: Britain’s next fighter jet – science fiction, or flying fact?
Description: Scientists have spent years researching concepts including laser weapons and brain sensors for a new RAF plane called ‘Tempest’.Now ministers want those ideas turned into a working plane in just 5 years, but is it a gamble with the UK’s air capability?As British service personnel are banned from buying sex overseas BFBS Sitrep hears how brothels used to be unofficial parts of UK bases abroad.And we follow soldiers on exercise in an abandoned tower block in Leeds, as the Ukraine war demonstrates the need for urban combat experience which the army h...