(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 22 - The agenda of Monday's meeting of
Premier Giorgia Meloni's cabinet includes a bill to ratify and
implement the convention signed in Tokyo in December for an
international organization for the Global Combat Air Programme
(GCAP).
The GCAP is a joint programme led by Italy, the UK and Japan to
develop a seventh-generation combat aircraft by 2035.
Italy's State-controlled defence-and-aerospace giant Leonardo is
a strategic partner in the project together with Britain's Bae
Systems and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. (ANSA).