GCAP Fighter Efforts Progress Despite Looming Defense Review

Two fighter jets flying over islands

A new GCAP fighter configuration with an enlarged trapezoidal delta wing was displayed at Farnborough.

Credit: BAE Systems
Despite an impending UK defense review, the industrial partners in the trinational Global Combat Air Program are not holding back their development efforts. Media headlines in the run-up to the Farnborough International Airshow had muddied the waters. Reporting had suggested that UK involvement in...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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