Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)

Syria returns to the headlines after a bloody year of conflict between Israel and Iranian proxies.

A perilous threat environment has prompted increased defense spending outside the U.S. and the construction of new multinational supply chains.

The trinational development of a next-generation fighter is using a less expensive airliner to test airborne systems.

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.

Aviation Week's defense team discusses the latest developments with Europe's combat air projects as governments there ramp up military spending.

Crucial milestones in the development of the next-generation combat aircraft are imminent.

BAE Systems has said its work on Future Combat Air Systems could contribute £37 billion to the UK economy by 2070.

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.

Leonardo expects the industrial agreement on the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to be finalized before year’s end.

A new defense market reality is emerging in the country as Tokyo seeks to increase its exports.

Both the UK and Japan have ratified the GIGO treaty, and Italian lawmakers are expected to approve it shortly.

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Roberto Cingolani wants his company to play a greater role in the global aerostructures business and shape the development of new-generation combat aircraft.

The Tempest program faces a political stress test in Britain’s new strategic defense review.

Listen in as Aviation Week defense editors discuss their highlights from Farnborough Airshow, sharing their thoughts on GCAP, CCAs, FLRAA, tankers and more.

Despite the upcoming UK defense review, Global Combat Air Program industrial partners have been encouraged by ministerial interest in the project at Farnborough.

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.

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.

Aerospace engineers 2Excel have begun adding lumps and bumps to a Boeing 757 that will help test the future GCAP fighter aircraft's potential sensor suite and mission systems.

Industry partners in the tri-national Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) insist their foot remains on the development accelerator pedal despite the new UK government launching a review into the country’s defense posture.

Airbus Defense and Space's Michael Schoellhorn said there may be opportunities for collaboration between the two big future combat aircraft programs being pursued in Europe.

Industrial partners in the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) are set to display a new model of the latest proposed configuration of the crewed combat aircraft.

“It’s not right for me to prejudge what might happen in the defense review,” UK Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard says.