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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...
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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...
Europe’s Answer to the F-35 Has 2-3 Weeks to Live — France and Germany Can’t Agree on Who Leads, and the Program Is About...
The FCAS Fighter Will Soon Move Forward Or End Up Being a Historical Footnote Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has given Europe’s most ambitious...
GCAP Could Soon See Poland Join the Program Europe’s Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) just received a significant boost as uncertainty still plagues the...
Georgia Gilholy, a prominent UK-based journalist, evaluates the strategic "acceleration through friction" of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). While a critical design contract...
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Europe’s ambitious attempt to secure air sovereignty for the 2040s, is facing an existential industrial deadlock. Dassault Aviation...
If the FCAS collapses, the result won't just be a canceled jet; it will mark a definitive shift in European defense toward a permanent...