Canada pushes to join U.K.-Italy-Japan advanced fighter jet project

I’m a simple man, all I want is CANZUK and to never read a Trump headline again in my life.

A related non-paywalled article [here](https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/f-35-compromise-canada-looks-to-join-global-combat-air-program/)

U.K. + Italy + Japan... and now Canada? Talk about a powerhouse alliance! Can’t wait to see this jet in action.

Absolutely should happen, Canadian manufacturing capacity would help all four nations deliver this.

NATO deciding to not have one or even two, but 4 different 6th gen fighter jets is going to be fun for supply chains

Honestly, I don't see it happening. I heard Japan is pretty strict about timelines and renegotiating the shares in the project would definitely delay it (it's not as easy to as saying it's 25% instead of 33% and Canada pays money now). I would love to see the countries named (like 5 at this point) to be adopters, even "tier 2" partners with some manufacturing, but not at the price of delaying the whole thing right now. Also I wouldn't want Canada to join at the expense of other projects. Canadian military has been underfunded heavily for the past decade or so and they basically need to build many parts from scrap. Having both this project and rebuilding of the army would mean making it to more like 3% of GDP defence spending where the 1% will just go towards GCAP. I would hate the GCAP to be known as "semi-vanity project that killed Canadian armed forces" (with reference to canadian forces, would never call GCAP a vanity project). Sounds great as a headline, gets worse with every fact you know.

Just within NATO, the United States, Sweden, and Turkey are fielding / developing 5th generation fighter jets? Can France be invited to this coalition advanced fighter jet?

I'm going to guess the UK deserves top billing in this project because of Rolls Royce's decades long expertise in engines? The engine to be used in the sixth generation fighter jet will have 10 times the electrical power output for things such as lasers?

Do we get the Valkyrie series or the Zeta Gundam and Re-Gz line?

If we all have the same jet, we won’t fight each other?

Canada will ensure it can operate at -40 in a snow storm, while still having cup holders to support their XL Double-Double addiction.

Could have been Germany Italy japan

Good luck making canadien, uk and japan working together. All of them are pretty good on their own but work and industrial cultures are going to be hell. I'm french and worked with all of them : - uk great blue collars, management are two faced SOB that do not produce anything and love jerking each other in meetings before giving all the work to the one or two guys actually getting shit done. - canadians : work place well being got so out of hand it's easier to Just fire staff than tell them they're slow. - japan : nothing gets done until the plan is perfected to the umpteenth décimal. On the right side they'll still meet target Because half the staff won't even go home during the entité project. Oh and us french are not better : yes Our productivity is through the roof but we have lot's of unworked days, are almost as blunt as dutch and don't like to be told how to do stuff. I you ever have to manage a french way easier to tell them have this done by that date and wait then trying to micromanage Because they'll get in malicious compliance or f*** you mode instantly.

Ah just what one of the most complex projects in human history needs, more cooks in the kitchen

Ukraine. Iran. Drones. "The nature of modern warfare is changing rapidly with new weaponry based on drones and machine learning. Yet, military planners are immersed in studying past battles. Here are two versions of a pertinent maxim: (1) Generals are always preparing to fight the last war. (2) The military always prepares for the previous war." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/01/27/last-war/