US EditionFCAS In Crisis: Europe’s €100 Billion Fighter Project Faces Collapse Amid Franco-German Rift
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Initially expected for April 18, the conclusions of the Franco-German mediation on the combat aircraft of the future are delayed by ten days, said Catherine Vautrin. For the moment, the arm of iron persists between Dassault Aviation and Airbus on the pilotage of this industrial file and...
Germany and France want to build a new fighter jet, but the companies involved are fighting. Now a mediation attempt is to take ten days longer.
This week there is to be a decision on the Franco-German Future Combat Air System. Both countries have been arguing about the project for years. But the air war has long developed.
In the face of this umpteenth failure to try to reconvert the disagreement on the distribution of tasks led by Airbus and Dassault Aviation, industrial leaders of the program by Germany and France, respectively, there is only one last decision left by the political leaders.This is reflected in the main German economic daily Handelsblatt, in a piece in which he reveals that the mediator appointed by Germany concludes that the development of a sin…
Scaf: the failure of mediation undermines the future of the European fighter The ultimate attempt to mediate on the Scaf (Air Combat System of the Future) has resulted in a resounding failure, reveals the German economic daily Handelsblatt. This disappointment dramatically weakens Franco-German industrial cooperation on this large programme, valued at tens of billions of euros and considered the backbone of European autonomy in defence. The medi…
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