France Abandons Its Major Warplane Project with Germany: Dassault Will Build the Rafale's Successor on Its Own.

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The cessation of the Franco-German "Air Combat System of the Future" (Scaf) is a camouflet for France. Airbus will develop its aircraft with German industrialists. But Dassault has the ability to produce a "super Rafale" boosted with drones and AI.

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The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) was created in its original form ad Acta, only the digital "Combat Cloud" is to be further developed. The failure of the project illustrates the differences of interest between Germany and France. The Franco-German FCAS agreement aimed to develop the new flagship fighter aircraft of the European Union. It was to be equipped with a "Combat Cloud" which would have combined data from aircraft, drones and other co…

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Nine years of meetings, three billion euros swallowed up, and not a single prototype in flight. Paris and Berlin have just buried their joint fighter jet. France is going it alone again, and for once, that's almost good news.