Germany Seeks New Fighter Jet Partners After FCAS Collapses
"The fact that FCAS has now been shut down came as no surprise. Signs had been pointing in that direction for quite some time," Pistorius told a press conference in Berlin, attributing the collapse primarily to irreconcilable disagreements between aerospace giants Dassault and Airbus.
The minister signaled that Berlin is already charting a new course, while stopping short of revealing which direction it would take.
"As for the new jet, we shall see which path we take. We have been in discussions with various stakeholders about this for months—as you can well imagine. However, I am not going to speculate publicly here about which project it might turn out to be or who would lead it," the minister said.
The FCAS program had been conceived as a flagship European defense initiative, designed to develop a sixth-generation stealth combat aircraft to eventually replace France's Rafale jets and Germany's Eurofighter fleets. The project, however, never recovered from deep-seated disputes over technical specifications, leadership responsibilities, industrial workshare arrangements, technology transfers, and intellectual property rights — divisions that proved insurmountable despite years of negotiations.
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