UK lobbies South Korea to switch to Rolls-Royce for new fighter jets, FT reports
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
The UK is lobbying South Korea to select Rolls-Royce over GE Aerospace for its fighter jet engines, aiming for co-production.
(Reuters) -British officials are lobbying South Korea to switch to Rolls-Royce from U.S. rival GE Aerospace as the primary engine partner for its fighter jet programme, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
Officials have been lobbying for co-production with a foreign partner as an intermediary step, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter.
(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
The UK is lobbying South Korea to switch to Rolls-Royce from GE Aerospace as the primary engine partner for its fighter jet programme.
Officials are considering co-production with a foreign partner as an intermediary step in the fighter jet programme.
Rolls-Royce is being proposed as the engine partner, replacing the U.S. rival GE Aerospace.
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