Aircraft
General Dynamics, Alenia Aermacchi Pursue T-X Trainer Program
General Dynamics and Alenia Aermacchi will offer the T-100 variant of the M-346 jet trainer for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer replacement program. (Photo: Alenia Aermacchi)
General Dynamics and Alenia Aermacchi will offer the T-100 variant of the M-346 jet trainer for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer replacement program. (Photo: Alenia Aermacchi)

General Dynamics and Italy’s Alenia Aermacchi signed a letter of intent to jointly offer a pilot training system built around Alenia Aermacchi’s M-346 advanced jet trainer for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X jet trainer replacement program. The partnership is the second industrial team to announce its pursuit of the T-X program after the team of BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman, which is offering the Hawk AJT (advanced jet trainer).