British Aerospace P.125

The British Aerospace P.125 was a British supersonic short take-off and vertical landing multirole combat aircraft under development in the 1980s, and the existence of the project was only revealed by BAE Systems in 2006. The 1988 design, about the size of a Tornado, was meant to meet a requirement for a supersonic, stealthy STOVL interdictor, and there were to be non-STOVL and STOVL variants. Both had a single reheated turbofan with a vectorable rear nozzle, and the STOVL version would have kept vertical flight with three jet lift nozzles, with the pilot sitting highly reclined and without direct sight of the outside world. In the 1990s the British government decided to join the Joint Strike Fighter programme instead, and the P.125 was cancelled.