Japan will collaborate with the United Kingdom and Italy to develop a new generation combat aircraft by 2035, the three countries announced on Friday (December 9th), as the Japanese archipelago seeks to strengthen its defense strategy in a tense geopolitical context.
Tokyo, London and Rome will launch
“an ambitious effort to develop a next-generation combat aircraft”
under a program called GCAP (Global Combat Air Programme), the governments said in a statement, insisting on the
“ future interoperability'
of the project with other partners.
