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Global Combat Air Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long the Global Combat Air Programme development phase is expected to last.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
13 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long the Global Combat Air Programme development phase is expected to last.

  2. 13 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Work is ongoing with our GCAP Partners Japan and Italy to establish the core platform concept and set up the structures needed, ready to launch the Development Phase in 2025. The programme's ambition remains to deliver an aircraft into service from 2035, ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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