MRCA systems and related equipment

Abstract

FOR many years, air forces and industry have sought to define and perfect a single weapons systems covering a wide range of operational requirements. The ‘general purpose’ aeroplane, as it used to be known, was actually evolved in a number of countries between the wars but, while suitable in peace‐time (when performance was not as important as economy), it proved to be no wartime match for specialist aircraft designed without compromise to fill just one role. ‘Multi‐Role’ thus became a somewhat discredited concept. During the 1960s, however, when NATO countries began to look for replacements for a number of aircraft types, consideration was still given to the possibility of one multirole aircraft being designed to fulfil, at reasonable cost, a number of, if not all, these various national requirements.

Citation

(1974), "MRCA systems and related equipment", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 46 No. 5, pp. 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035149