Europe's Next-Gen Fighter Jet Dream Might Be Dead In The Water

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Germany, France and Spain want to build a joint fighter aircraft, but plans have been stalling for a long time. Airbus employees, a trade union and the aviation industry association are now calling for the end of the project.

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France and Germany have been unable to agree on the construction of the Future Combat Air System for years.

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The demands for an end to the ongoing dispute over the FCAS air combat system are growing louder. The German Airbus workforce is refusing to continue working with French industrial partner Dassault on the development of a future fighter aircraft. This is the central pillar of the FCAS project. “It is time to finally end the drama with Dassault,” the head of the works council of the Airbus armaments division, Thomas Pretzl, told the “Frankfurter …

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As an alternative to the air combat project FCAS, Airbus wants a German jet – and ex-chief Tom Enders wants more drones. None of them is right. A comment.

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France is reluctant to participate in the European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, and its leading aerospace company, Dassault, wants to be the lead entity in the program, with an 80 percent share of the work. At least, it wants to work on the most ambitious part of the FCAS program: the manned aircraft.