Originally Posted by
artee
Sad but true. It's currently looking like the UK are going to leave Japan & Italy in the lurch with Tempest.
Yep agree thats why I think it was very important that the RN SSN came to australia as planned. It was largely symbolic
Also the initial japanese plan for GCAP was they signed up for the technology part do much the same they did with the F2. Take the technoloigy concepts and make their own fighter. Maybe the agreement evolved over the years to taking a GCAP as is