Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System faces a make-or-break decision as Germany, France, and Spain near an end-of-2025 deadline to fix governance and cost disputes. -FCAS was designed as a “system of systems” built around a New Generation Fighter linked to drones and a digital combat cloud, replacing Rafale and Eurofighter […]
Boxer is produced by Artec which is a cooperation of Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann (now KNDS). Or the drive module is… as modularity was the main goal the mission module part also has a lot of third party producers.
But it started as a German/British/French coproduction… up to the point when orders for the production of several different prototypes fitting the requirements were given to several different European companies and they dared to not pick the French contender. Whch then later became VBCI.
It is the whole Eurofighter story all over again. I’m glad, there is GCAP around the corner.
…or Boxer …or APACHE (the most rediculous one actually)
…and probably MGCS after that.
Isn’t the Boxer made by three different flavours of Rheinmetal?
Boxer is produced by Artec which is a cooperation of Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann (now KNDS). Or the drive module is… as modularity was the main goal the mission module part also has a lot of third party producers.
But it started as a German/British/French coproduction… up to the point when orders for the production of several different prototypes fitting the requirements were given to several different European companies and they dared to not pick the French contender. Whch then later became VBCI.
That one gave us a cooler eurofighter, I’m ready for a cooler tempest now. If it’s not outrageously french I don’t want it
Probably best to have multiple options. Being reliant on one large provider hasn’t worked out so well.