{"id":740456,"date":"2026-06-16T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740456\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:25:10","slug":"canada-begins-talks-with-italy-on-buying-advanced-trainer-jets-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740456\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada begins talks with Italy on buying advanced trainer jets \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c9VIAN-LES-BAINS \u2013 Canada and Italy have entered talks for Canada\u2019s purchase of M-346 advanced jet trainer aircraft.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made after a meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit in \u00c9vian-les-Bains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The jets are designed and produced by Leonardo, one of Italy\u2019s largest aerospace companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrime Minister Mark Carney meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christopher Katsarov<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how many jets Canada is looking to purchase.<\/p>\n

The leaders say the agreement will enable the Royal Canadian Air Force to train in \u201cstate-of-the-art\u201d equipment and build sovereign training capability.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, the International Test Pilots School of Canada ordered six Italian-made M-346 fighter jets for a new NATO training centre in North Bay.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c9VIAN-LES-BAINS \u2013 Canada and Italy have entered talks for Canada\u2019s purchase of M-346 advanced jet trainer aircraft. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-740456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}