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France Wants FCAS Sixth-Generation Fighter That Can Fly Off Aircraft Carriers And Drop Nuclear Weapons — Germany And Spain Don’t

Airbus Defense and Space chief Mike Schoellhorn told an Airbus event that he would support a two-aircraft solution for the European Future Combat Air System sixth-generation fighter program if a single fighter cannot work for France, Germany, and Spain. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury added that the assumptions behind FCAS — launched in 2017 to deliver a European sixth-generation fighter by the 2040s — are no longer valid after the war in Ukraine. Fr…

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The French company Airbus has hosted its German plant in Ingolstadt, a few kilometres from Munich, its first Summit, an internal congress in which the CEO of the company...

·Madrid, Spain
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The CEO of Airbus, Guillaume Faury, this Wednesday defended the continuity of the FCAS programme, the great European project to develop a sixth generation air combat system, despite the tensions that some of the negotiations between France and Germany keep blocked. During a summit organised by the European group at the Ingolstadt-Manching airfield in Germany, Faury said that the group remains committed to the programme and to European industrial…

·Madrid, Spain
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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.
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