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The Sixth-Generation fighter plane commonly known as the Tempest has taken a major step toward being reality after Britain, Japan, and Italy signed an international treaty in Tokyo to create a formal partnership to develop a new supersonic aircraft.
The effort will be steered from an HQ in Britain, with a Japanese leader for the government apparatus and an Italian executive for the industry side.
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The effort will be steered from an HQ in Britain, with a Japanese leader for the government apparatus and an Italian executive for the industry side.
Japan's 1947 constitution rejects the militarism that led the empire to disaster in the Second World war. But in recent years, the Tokyo government has sought to relax the prohibition on closer military co-operation with the West.
The Ministry of Defence wants to see a demonstrator of the sixth-generation warplane fly in four years.