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Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defense collaboration beyond the United States since World War II. The deal aims to put an advanced front-line fighter into operation by 2035 by combining the British-led Future Combat Air System project, also known as Tempest, with Japan’s F-X program in a venture called the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the three countries said in a statement on Friday. Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and intensifying Chinese military activity around Japan and...
