US EditionFCAS Fighter Jet Programme Stalls Amidst Franco-German Disagreements
Disagreements over work-sharing among lead companies stall the Franco-German-Spanish fighter program, risking delays to the tank project despite ongoing cooperation on MGCS, officials said.
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FCAS Fighter Jet Programme Stalls Amidst Franco-German Disagreements
FCAS Fighter Jet Programme Stalls Amidst Franco-German Disagreements A meeting of defense ministers from France, Germany, and Spain failed to revive the floundering FCAS warplane programme, insiders revealed on Tuesday. The ambitious 100-billion-euro plan, aimed at developing a fifth-generation fighter jet, appears increasingly uncertain as France proposes to postpone decisions that Germany hoped to finalize by 2025.Initially expected to advance…
The signal launched by KNDS — worried that a blockage of the FCAS could contaminate MGCS — sheds light on a central question: does the crisis in the air programme call into question the entire Franco-German cooperation mechanism launched in 2017? The alert is not only technical; it is primarily political and industrial. It reveals an impasse [...]
The managing director of the defense company KNDS, Jean-Paul Alary, has warned that a possible cessation of the FCAS (Future Combat Air System), the program to create a European fighter and a next-generation air combat system between Germany, France and Spain, could affect the Franco-German project for the development of the ‘tank [...] The entry KNDS warns that a potential freeze of the FCAS could affect the project of the ‘European tank’ first…
None of the three partners of the Future Air Combat System (FCAS) has revealed any result of the expected quote, beyond the brief note published by the Spanish Ministry of Defense on social networks, in which it realizes the quote and points out: “We continue to work and bet on European strategic autonomy and big projects like the FCAS”.
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