Eurofighter-Gripen Fighter Jet Alliance Gains Attention As Airbus Seeks Alternatives To Troubled Franco-German FCAS Program
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The joint European sixth-generation combat aircraft project is limping forward, perhaps.
Eurofighter-Gripen Fighter Jet Alliance Gains Attention As Airbus Seeks Alternatives To Troubled Franco-German FCAS Program
Europe’s ambitious Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, once envisioned as the cornerstone of the continent’s next-generation airpower strategy, is increasingly showing signs of fragmentation as tensions between key industrial partners threaten to derail the project’s most critical component —… The post Eurofighter-Gripen Fighter Jet Alliance Gains Attention As Airbus Seeks Alternatives To Troubled Franco-German FCAS Program appeared first o…
The mediation between Dassault Aviation and Airbus, conducted last April, failed to revive the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project, and in particular the development of a new generation fighter jet (NGF – New Generation Fighter) intended to be a joint venture between France, Germany, and Spain. This article, "A collaboration between Airbus and Saab to develop a 6th generation fighter jet is taking shape," first appeared on Zone Militaire.
Sixth-generation fighters: the Franco-German alliance is creaking. Airbus looks to Sweden's Saab to save the European project. - Economic Scenarios
The European defense industry is increasingly resembling a complex theatrical drama, where the actors struggle to agree on the script. At the center of the action is the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) , the massive Franco-German-Spanish (with the addition of Belgium and Spain) project for a sixth-generation fighter. A program that, amid delays and mutual vetoes, risks bogging down. But now, a new twist is reshuffling the cards: Airbus appears r…
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