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 […]
Dassault has been threatening to bail on the FCAS and do an enhanced Rafale for a while. Recently Germany, which had been pretty passive about this, started drawing some lines in the sand.
In my own book, it’s principally France being unreasonable, as France has gotten an awful lot of concessions on the FCAS from Germany and Spain and made few herself (unless France has made concessions that we can’t see).
But setting aside that, this has been going on for a while, and you can find coverage of the friction from many media sources if you don’t like this one. It’s not some new, out-of-the-blue thing. The only way I think it isn’t an issue is if you think that Dassault has been bluffing and is just hoping to issue all these threats in the hopes of getting the very best deal possible, while not actually being willing (or having France not be willing to let Dassault) walk away.
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Dassault has been threatening to bail on the FCAS and do an enhanced Rafale for a while. Recently Germany, which had been pretty passive about this, started drawing some lines in the sand.
In my own book, it’s principally France being unreasonable, as France has gotten an awful lot of concessions on the FCAS from Germany and Spain and made few herself (unless France has made concessions that we can’t see).
But setting aside that, this has been going on for a while, and you can find coverage of the friction from many media sources if you don’t like this one. It’s not some new, out-of-the-blue thing. The only way I think it isn’t an issue is if you think that Dassault has been bluffing and is just hoping to issue all these threats in the hopes of getting the very best deal possible, while not actually being willing (or having France not be willing to let Dassault) walk away.