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As you go into a conflict you rapidly exhaust your stocks and you start to put pressure on the supply chain. What you want in that situation is the maximum ability to be able to dig into the other stockpiles and supply chains that are available,\u201d he told Defense News on the sidelines of the International Fighter conference in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHaving a platform that can carry any NATO weapon, any U.S. weapon, any of the three nations\u2019 weapons immediately gives the commanders in the theater flexibility,\u201d added Sanders, who leads the UK\u2019s Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Requirements and Concepting team which includes the GCAP program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanders said another reason for weapons bay flexibility was the need to start carrying high-cost armaments at the start of a conflict to overcome enemy defenses &#8211; before needing to scale down to \u201cdumb,\u201d unguided bombs as those defenses became weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we keep on using the most expensive weapons (throughout the conflict) the cost per kill, the cost per engagement is not sustainable. What we want to be able to do is start to pull apart the threads of the defensive system we are going against. We want to be in a situation where we can start to drop down the cost point of the weapons we are using,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a flexible weapons bay, Sanders said \u201cI can get the right weapon for the cost-per-kill ratio.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as the GCAP needs to be able to use all weapons, it must be able to work with all drones known as Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Sanders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou have to be in a situation where, just like the weapons, the GCAP can work with what it finds. It\u2019s no mean feat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Analyst Douglas Barrie said building a fighter able to work with different CCAs was logical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would expect the UK, Japan and Italy all have CCAs they \u2018own\u2019 which are sovereign capabilities they will use with GCAP. Whether they eventually coalesce around a shared platform is an interesting question but at the moment they seem to be going independently because it gives you more choice, more flexibility,\u201d said Barrie, a senior fellow for military aerospace at the IISS think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dawn of the era of Collaborative Combat Aircraft was a recurring theme at this year\u2019s International Fighter Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish officials discussed how they might match a CCA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/10\/27\/turkey-signs-107-billion-deal-with-uk-for-20-eurofighter-jets\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/10\/27\/turkey-signs-107-billion-deal-with-uk-for-20-eurofighter-jets\/\">with the 20 Eurofighters Turkey agreed<\/a> to purchase last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jorge Tamarit-Degenhardt, CEO of the Eurofighter, said he was concerned that adapting the fighter to work with numerous CCAs picked by different customers could prove costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCan we develop CCA integration in different configurations in different countries? 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