Key Points and Summary - Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS)—the Franco-German-Spanish bid for a sixth-generation fighter—faces fresh turbulence over leadership and workshare. -Berlin bristles at ...

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz gives a press conference after the 14th cabinet meeting of the 21st legislative period in the Bendlerblock of the German Defence Ministry. Britta Pedersen/dpa A ...

A visitor passes an FCAS aircraft mockup at the Dassault Aviation stand at the Paris Air Show in June 2025. (Sebastian Sprenger/staff) PARIS — France said it’s fully committed to reaching a “mutually ...

The battlefield has been a place where strength meets strategy, but today, something new has entered the fight: machines that think, adapt, and vanish. Across the world, militaries are rolling out ...

When Europe’s two next-generation fighter programs began, their futures seemed predictable. The French-German-Spanish program known as the Future Combat Air System looked unlikely to succeed for ...

With France’s withdrawal from the inter-European FCAS sixth-gen fighter jet initiative appearing more and more likely, it is unclear how the program will survive. Germany and France have a long and at ...

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The head of Dassault Aviation (AM.PA), opens new tab raised doubts on Tuesday over the future of a troubled Franco-German-Spanish fighter programme, saying it partly depended ...

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Discussions with France are ongoing about whether the next-generation fighter jet programme, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), will result in a single aircraft or be split into two, Germany’s ...

Watch as Richard Aboulafia joins the podcast to discuss how 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for two next-generation fighter programs conceived in Europe: FCAS and GCAP. Don't miss a single ...

Militaries eager to introduce unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft will fail to gain a combat edge unless they transform ...