GCAP e sistema-Paese: sfide e opportunità per l'Italia

The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) for the development and production of a next generation fighter aircraft is for Italy an extraordinary programme for a variety of reasons. At the political level, it is the first time that Japan cooperates with Italy and the United Kingdom, on an equal position of co-leadership that the three countries pursued in order to guarantee full operational and technological sovereignty after the experience in the US-led F-35 programme.

At the military level, the requirements for an aircraft that will coexist with and then replace the Eurofighter in Italy and the UK in the coming decades, in an international security environment marked by tough geopolitical confrontation, are particularly challenging.

At the industrial level, GCAP represents a quantum leap for the aerospace and defence industry of the three partner countries on a series of critical technologies, from materials to propulsion, from avionics to sensors, from electronic warfare to drones, from combat cloud up to the new frontier of artificial intelligence.

On March 13th in Rome, IAI will launch a preview of its study “The new partnership among Italy, Japan and the UK on the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP)”. The study analyses the three countries’ approach to GCAP, the institutional governance and industrial cooperation in the programme, the state of the art of similar initiatives in Europe and the US, current and future challenges and opportunities, providing 15 recommendations for Italy.

The launch event, titled "GCAP and the country system: challenges and opportunities for Italy", will be held from 10:30 to 12:30 at the Rome Chamber of Commerce, Sala del Tempio di Vibia Sabina e Adriano, in Piazza di Pietra. The President of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and the heads of the Italian armed forces and Leonardo will discuss the study, while Minister of Defence Guido Crosetto will make the concluding remarks.