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General Dynamics, Alenia Aermacchi Pursue 

T-X Trainer Program

AIN DEFENSE PERSPECTIVE » JANUARY 18, 2013

by  BILL CAREY

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)

January 18, 2013, 12:20 PM

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).