Paris Air Show special - mocked up fighters, flying in the Embraer KC-390 and the future of air combat training

What is the Future Combat Air System and TF-X? How is Embraer positioning the KC-390? 

In this week’s episode of the Weekly Defence Podcast, we come to you from the tarmac at the sweltering Paris Air Show, covering the unveiling of FCAS and the Turkish TF-X sixth generation fighters.

We also take a flight in the Embraer KC-390, speak to Cubic Global Defense about the future of air combat training and hear about the teaming agreement between our sponsor Nammo and Boeing.

• News Round Up (00:51)

This week in the news…

The Shephard Media team covers all the major announcements and trends from Paris Air Show 2019.

Senior Reporter Tim Martin describes how two new fighter jet mock-ups unveiled in a matter of minutes at Le Bourget left many at the Paris Air Show to react with a degree of scepticism. Tim also reviews the helicopter presence at the air show and provides an update on the Airbus Helicopters H160M multirole helicopter, which was one noteworthy aircraft on static display.

Meanwhile, Richard outlines how a rapidly maturing unmanned VTOL industrial base is pushing its platforms into contention for naval test and procurement programmes where it was thought only fixed-wing capabilities would suffice.

Paris Air Show: Future fighter hard sell undermined by soft detail
Paris Air Show: H160M mock up demonstrates payload options (video)
Paris Air Show: Unmanned VTOL eyes fixed-wing real estate
Paris Air Show: Carry on Poseidon (video insight)
Paris Air Show: Eurofighter launches long-term capability drive

• Paris Air Show coverage – flying in the KC-390 (12:20)

 Air Domain Editor Helen Haxell takes a flight in the Embraer KC-390 military transport aircraft and talks to Walter Pinto Junior, Vice President of the KC-390 at Embraer Defense & Security.

• Interview - Mike Knowles, president of Cubic Global Defence (21:16)

Mike Knowles, president of Cubic Global Defence, provides an update on the ‘laser tag in the sky’ system, also known as the P5 Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) training device.. 

•  Industry Voice – Nammo (36:10)

In this week’s Industry Voice Tony Skinner, our VP of Content, and Endre Lunde, SVP of Communications for Nammo, talk about the company’s strategic agreement with Boeing.

Music and sound mixing provided by Fred Prest