Can you abandon your name and get the fruit? Fighter engine, an opportunity to open the door overseas

Take off or the next fighter ・ Read from above

The next fighter "FX (F-3)" plan that Japan aims to deploy around 2035. It is the United Kingdom that sends the autumn wave in the engine development.

Like Japan, British companies such as Rolls-Royce, the world's leading aircraft engine company, and BAE Systems, the world's leading defense engine, have begun research on the 6th generation combat mechanism concept "Tempest," which is aimed at deployment in the 2030s. The reason why the British are approaching Japan for joint development is that the scheduled time for the actual deployment of Tempest is about 35 years when Japan deploys FX. There are also circumstances in which there is no financial margin, such as the impact of Brexit and the response to the Korona-ka.

Tempest is said to cost 2 billion pounds (about 300 billion yen) for research alone and several trillion yen for development and mass production. With limited funding, the British government wants to develop a Tempest engine as well by joining Japan's 6th generation fighter program.

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