The sixth-generation (6th Gen) global combat air program (GCAP) is a multinational effort being developed by a collective of air forces and their domestic aerospace defense companies to jointly create ...

The JV progress comes five months after the GCAP partners unveiled a new concept of the future crewed fighter jet, based around a conventional delta wing shape and featuring increased wingspan ...

A full-scale model of GCAP was displayed at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow. The lead industrial partners have agreed a joint venture to deliver this capability for the mid-2030s.

A model of the GCAP aircraft displayed at Farnborough International Airshow 2024. (Image credit: Leonardo) The GCAP fighter, a merger of the British-Italian Tempest and Japanese F-X programs ...

Similarly, MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), under JAIEC, operates another FACO and also has experience developing the X-2 Shinshin stealth fighter ... The new GCAP concept model.

This has led some, including Musk, to believe that drones are simply superior to fighter aircraft and that the former should have already replaced the latter. But drones are not the dreadnoughts of ...

A person walks past the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) fighter jet concept design at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) ROME — The British ...