Britain is building a new fighter plane in partnership with Italy and Japan

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, quoted by the newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, UK , Italy and Japan signed a cooperation agreement to jointly build a new stealth fighter aircraft that will be operational from 2035. According to the British Ministry of Defense, this supersonic aircraft will be equipped with a radar system that It can deliver 10,000 times more data than current systems, resulting in a “decisive combat advantage”.

British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps traveled to Japan to sign the cooperation agreement. The development headquarters of this aircraft will be located in England. The defense company BAE Systems will be responsible for this with the participation of several other companies from the United Kingdom and other participating countries.

This new program of combat aircraft is called GCAP (Global Combat Air Program) and with a similar project called FCAS system Combat Air of the Future) run by Germany, France and Spain.

At the signing of the agreement, Shoppes said the new air combat program would be “world-leading” and that participating nations would are progressing towards the goal of delivering jointly developed and built aircraft to their armed forces by 2035.

The first CEO of this joint project is to be introduced by Japan, and the first supervisor of the construction team is also from Come to Italy. The project in England is supported by a military aviation industry that currently provides 3,000 jobs, Shapps said. He continued that the new aircraft should “form the backbone of our future operational fleet in a more dangerous age.” He added: . This will enhance regional security both in Europe and in the Indo-Pacific region.

Britain has also previously been involved in the development and construction of joint fighter aircraft, notably the Tornado and Eurofighter (Typhoon) projects. Is. According to the British Ministry of Defence, the new project will be called “Tempest”. Secret British troops in Cyprus to support Israel Immigration approves Sonak /a>