US EditionAirbus ready to build two new European fighter jets if 'customers' ask
Airbus CEO supports two-jet FCAS plan if partners agree amid governance disputes, with development costs estimated at 100 billion euros, analysts said.
- Airbus is ready to build two new European fighter jets if 'customers' request it, despite the ongoing disagreement between Airbus and Dassault over the development of a single fighter jet.
- French President Emmanuel Macron continues to favor the development of a single common European fighter jet, while German leaders and Airbus have expressed openness to a two-fighter solution.
- Analysts estimate that developing the new fighter jet and its cutting-edge technologies will cost around 100 billion euros .
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Columbia Gorge NewsAirbus ready to build two new European fighters if countries want
Airbus, which represents Germany and Spain in the multibillion-euro FCAS warplane program, will support a proposal to instead build two separate jets if the countries participating in the project request it, chief executive Guillaume Faury said Thursday.
French President Macron confirmed the plans for the joint air combat system FCAS with Germany. During the visit of the AI summit in New Delhi, Macron said that there were frictions between the industrial partners, but they should not determine the strategy of the participating countries.
Airbus is not only busy with the dwindling production, but also with the threatening fiasco surrounding the joint FCAS fighter aircraft program.
Macron defends FCAS as Merz and Airbus float two-fighter option
The FCAS programme to produce a new European-made fighter jet has stalled in the face of disagreements between Airbus and Dassault. The latest statements from France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Friedrich Merz suggest a breakthrough remains elusive.
Airbus open to two-fighter option for FCAS to keep program alive
PARIS — Airbus is open to a “two-fighter solution” to break the deadlock on the future air-combat system that France, Germany and Spain are developing, Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury said, as work on the next-generation fighter (NGF) that’s part of the program has stalled amid infighting between Airbus and Dassault Aviation.The Future Combat Air System program, or FCAS, is at “a difficult junction,” Faury said at the Airbus full-year ea…
This is the first time that such a possibility for the Scaf project has been mentioned publicly at the industrial level.
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