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France’s New F5 ‘Super Rafale’ Fighter Doesn’t Care About Your Stealth F-22, F-35, or Even F-47 NGAD
FCAS died in June when Macron and Merz pulled the plug and Germany walked to GCAP, so France is going it alone: a national...
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FCAS died in June when Macron and Merz pulled the plug and Germany walked to GCAP, so France is going it alone: a national...
By March 2026 Dassault chief executive Eric Trappier had stopped being diplomatic on FCAS: "Airbus doesn't want to work with Dassault, full stop. I...
GCAP is the only European next-generation fighter program still standing. FCAS was supposed to replace the Rafale and the Eurofighter from around 2040, and...
The Global Combat Air Programme is meant to give Britain, Japan and Italy a sixth-generation stealth fighter by 2035. Japan allocated $1,270,000,000 to it...
The Eurofighter Typhoon, developed by Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo, was designed during the Cold War and is now expected to serve into the...
For years, Saab was Europe's outlier, the one major builder openly questioning whether the answer to the sixth-generation fighter was even a crewed jet,...
Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
The latest chapter of the Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet saga is now being written by both countries’ defense ministers as...
The Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has been on the rocks for months – and if things continue to go wrong, it could...