Formed through a merging of the UK-led Tempest and Japan’s F-X programmes, GCAP will produce a sixth-generation fighter with industries from the three partner nations collaborat ...

It was also this week that the Royal Air Force's (RAF's) chief of air reaffirmed that the GCAP is very much meant to address the ever-changing warfare threat. While speaking at the Royal United ...

Delegates look at the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) 6th-generation fighter jet concept design at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024, near London, on July 22, 2024. (Justin Tallis/AFP ...

Known as the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP), the project is expected to cost tens of billions of dollars before the new jet fighter enters service around the middle of the next decade.

Hopes that Europe’s two future fighter programmes could move closer together appear unlikely to be realised, with Dassault Aviation’s chief executive distancing his firm from any such proposal.

GCAP merged the original British and Italian ... BAE Systems CGI Model of Tempest in RAF colours (Image credit: BAE Systems) The manned fighter is a part of the FCAS programme that also aims ...