British and Japan choose to join forces?

According to Reuters on the 14th, three sources told Reuters that the United Kingdom and Japan were close to the cooperation between the two countries and the F-X fighter project. Sources said that the two countries plan to reach a new joint project agreement by the end of this year.

Reuters report screenshots, the picture shows the "storm" project prototype

Reuters said that this will be the first time after the war in Japan to seek countries outside the United States to participate in military development projects, and it is also the first major cooperation between Japan and Britain, which even exceeds the expectations of the two countries earlier.

A source said that Britain and Japan will reach an equal cooperative relationship, which will cost tens of billions of dollars.

Reuters said that the outside world has never reported the "Storm" fighter project led by BAE Systems and the F-X fighter project led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Corporation will be merged by the end of this year.

Another source said that Britain would be responsible for the European market, while Japan was responsible for the Asian market. He said,

Cooperative development will share the development cost, and the export will increase the output to reduce the price of each aircraft.

Reuters also particularly emphasized that the transformation of the Japanese military policy policy was driven by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was recently attacked, and the current Prime Minister Kishida also said that Japan will significantly increase the "defense funding".

Regarding the above news, the Japanese defense province responded that "we hope to decide how to cooperate by the end of this year and are considering various possibilities." The British Ministry of Defense did not respond.

According to the estimates of officials of Japanese defense, the total cost of the F-X fighter project will reach $ 40 billion, of which $ 700 million in R & D expenditure has been allocated this year. The BAE system company's "Storm" fighter project plans to obtain a government budget of 2.5 billion pounds by 2025.

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