Treaty on GCAP jet fighter project to be signed by end-2023, Italy says

A treaty for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) jet fighter programme will be signed in Tokyo by the end of the year, Italy's defence ministry said on Wednesday. Italy, Britain and Japan agreed in December 2022 to collaborate to build an advanced front-line fighter to enter service around the middle of the next decade. The Italian ministry issued a statement a day after three-way talks in Rome between the Italian and British defence ministers and a special advisor to the Japanese defence minister.