Members of the UK Parliamentary Defense Select Committee say the project will need to avoid the mistakes made by previous programs such as the Eurofighter.
The lead system integrators in the trinational Global Combat Air Program have agreed to form a joint venture that will go on to produce the future fighter.
After years of talking about collective defense, the EU wants to make 2025 the year it really advances efforts to boost the region’s military capacity.
UK engineering company 2Excel has begun test of its modified 757 flying testbed, which will be used for technologies leading to the Global Combat Air Program.
UK Defense Secretary John Healey says the British government is fully committed to the Global Combat Air Program despite the upcoming Strategic Defense Review.
The Italian parliament has backed the country’s involvement in the Global Combat Air Program with Japan and the UK, keeping the program on track to move into its next phase.
The factory in England is home to the only secure facility in the UK with capability to manufacture gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, the MOD says.
Roberto Cingolani wants his company to play a greater role in the global aerostructures business and shape the development of new-generation combat aircraft.
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In addition to work on the Global Combat Air Program, a Boeing 757 flight-test aircraft, called Excalibur, is being adapted to trial new technology elements.
Despite the upcoming UK defense review, Global Combat Air Program industrial partners have been encouraged by ministerial interest in the project at Farnborough.
Additive manufacturing is at the heart of the supersonic demonstrator that BAE Systems is building to support development of the Global Combat Air Program's fighter.
