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 […]
A LOT of money. Those three countries alone have some 550 planes that could eventually be the FCAS (depending on versions, but it’s likely to be the full number, minus a few dozen if it isn’t nuclear capable), and that’s not counting all the planes they would probably end up selling to the rest of Europe that doesn’t have a native fighter industry.
It is about a lot of money. Dassault basically wants the other partners to pay for their research. It is not childish but cocky.
A LOT of money. Those three countries alone have some 550 planes that could eventually be the FCAS (depending on versions, but it’s likely to be the full number, minus a few dozen if it isn’t nuclear capable), and that’s not counting all the planes they would probably end up selling to the rest of Europe that doesn’t have a native fighter industry.