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Brian Burton, War On The Rocks: As Allies Design Fighter Aircraft, the United States Faces a Decision
The United States has a long history of urging its closest allies to spend more on defense, and over the past few years Europe and Japan have started to respond.
But there’s a catch: Rather than content themselves with procuring capabilities that complement U.S. forces, they are about to drop some very expensive investments into the development of their own next-generation fighter aircraft.
In its recently released Defence Command Paper, the U.K. Ministry of Defense committed to invest 2 billion pounds (approximately $2.8 billion) over the next four years into the concept phase of its Future Combat Air System with Sweden and Italy, which includes the Tempest “sixth-generation” fighter program first unveiled in 2018.
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