{"id":63821,"date":"2026-07-25T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/63821\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:46:45","slug":"japan-uk-italy-eye-japanese-factory-to-build-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/63821\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, UK, Italy eye Japanese factory to build fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factory is expected to be the Japan centre for the development and assembly of the next-generation fighter jet to be produced by Japan, Britain and Italy, sources close to the matter said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The three members of the trilateral Global Combat Air Program are discussing the roles each will play in the design and manufacture of the jet, with Britain to set up its centre in Warton and Italy in Turin, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Japanese centre will be set up at Mitsubishi Heavy\u2019s Komaki South plant in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, by the end of this year, the sources said, adding that British engineers are already working on the aircraft\u2019s design at the plant.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mitsubishi Heavy has positioned the next-generation fighter jet development as a core business after it discontinued the development of Japan\u2019s first-ever domestic passenger jet, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People view the Global Combat Air Programme\u2019s 6th generation fighter jet concept design, bathed in the colours of the UK\u2019s national flag, on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow, southwest of London, in 2024. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/68d40095-cf1e-4270-a59a-1d70ba369c91_0c9bd0ba.jpg\" title=\"People view the Global Combat Air Programme\u2019s 6th generation fighter jet concept design, bathed in the colours of the UK\u2019s national flag, on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow, southwest of London, in 2024. Photo: AFP\"\/>People view the Global Combat Air Programme\u2019s 6th generation fighter jet concept design, bathed in the colours of the UK\u2019s national flag, on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow, southwest of London, in 2024. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The three countries agreed to launch the programme in 2022 to start deploying the fighter jet in 2035, amid an increasingly tense global security environment. Canada\u2019s participation as the first observer in the programme was announced on Tuesday, while some other nations including Germany and Australia have expressed an interest to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factory is expected to be the Japan centre for the development and assembly of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4464,29641,596,1368,12519,41374,4136,8,15502,41373,21302,6430,41371,41372,41375],"class_list":["post-63821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-aichi-prefecture","tag-bae-systems","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-edgewing","tag-global-combat-air-program","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-japan-air-self-defence-force","tag-japan-aircraft-industrial-enhancement","tag-leonardo","tag-mitsubishi-heavy-industries","tag-mitsubishi-regional-jet","tag-stealth-technology","tag-warton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}