Shortly before Christmas, on December 22, the UK and Japanese governments announced that the two countries were to jointly develop a jet engine technology demonstrator, as the precursor to a next generation propulsion system to power their respective future fighter aircraft, currently under development. The two countries also signed a Memorandum of Understanding, allowing them to explore the joint development of other future air combat technologies. The technology demonstration engine will be jointly developed by the UK’s Rolls-Royce and Japan’s IHI (previously known as Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries), with the involvement of BAE Systems and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The latter two are the lead groups for the development of the two countries’ respective next generation fighter programmes, the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, (UK) and the F-X (Japan). (FCAS is more popularly known as Tempest.)
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