Future Combat Air System: How Germany and France plan the combat jet of the future

A fighter jet that controls drones, thinks independently and controls airspace – the Future Combat Air System is Europe's largest military high-tech bet.

France's new ambassador to Sweden, Thierry Carlier, says that France may be interested in Saab's Global Eye reconnaissance aircraft, when old AWACS planes from Boeing are to be replaced. He says this in an interview with SvD. But the French demand did not come without a caveat: Carlier wants to see Sweden buy a defense system that is French-made.

Airbus engineers have shared plans behind their next plane, which is scheduled for the second half of the next decade.