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For Japan, it's huge
," exclaims Michito Tsuruoka, one of the best specialists in defense issues in the Archipelago, after the press release, published simultaneously on Friday by the British, Italian and Japanese governments.
The manufacturers of the three countries (BAE Systems, Leonardo and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) want to jointly produce a new generation fighter, available by 2035, as part of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) project.
The aircraft is to succeed the European Eurofighter and the American F15s of the Japanese fleet.
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This is the first time that the Italians and the English have joined forces in fighters without the Germans, and in addition they are bringing the Japanese up
,” notes a veteran of aeronautics in Tokyo.
This partnership with Japan is unprecedented.
Japanese military equipment has been an almost exclusive preserve of the United States since 1945. A de facto monopoly that traditionally arouses the ire of the European arms industry, but…
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