DE/FR/ESP: Future Combat Air System (FCAS)

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Mal von den wirtschafts- und industriepolitischen Aspekten ganz abgesehen, ist diese Forderung für Deutschland absolut nicht annehmbar. Man kann nicht immer und immer wieder Vereinbarungen aufkündigen, auf dieser Basis kann keine Zusammenarbeit erfolgen. Erst recht eine Zusammenarbeit, bei der Deutschland sich in seine Rolle als Juniorpartner fügen und auf Frankreichs guten Willen vertrauen soll.

Und es gibt auch noch Spanien und Belgien, die mit industriellen Beteiligungen befriedigt werden wollen.

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FCAS: Erhält Frankreich 80 Prozent am neuen New Generation Fighter?

France proposed to partners Germany and Spain to “rethink” the work share on the Future Combat Air System project in order to stick to a schedule that would see a future fighter enter into service from 2040 onwards, the country’s Directorate General for Armament said.

While the program has made significant progress, including deciding on the shape of the fighter demonstrator, it’s currently encountering difficulties, the DGA told Defense News in an emailed reply to questions. France therefore recently proposed to its partners to redesign their cooperation based on “strengthening industrial leadership,” the armaments agency said.

“France, as the program’s lead nation, is proposing to its government and industrial partners that they draw lessons from the first years of cooperation in order to continue to ensure that the schedule is met and the project is successful,” the DGA said. “The principle and details of this redesigned cooperation are currently being discussed with the partners.”

The program has met four critical milestones, and the current difficulties are “inherent in a program of this scale and ambition,” according to the DGA, which described FCAS as a project of “unprecedented complexity.”

Discussions on revamping the FCAS cooperation don’t call into question the goals and overall balance of the project, which is a “program of equals,” the armaments directorate said.

However, the ongoing talks will “lead to a reworking of the division of labor between each industrial player,” the DGA said. “Each player’s share of the work is not a given but will be the result of discussions between the partners.”

https://www.defensenews.com/global/euro ... r-project/

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Portugal eyes joining sixth-generation fighter programme

Portugal is to join one of the two competing European ‘sixth-generation' combat aircraft programmes as an observer, the country's Minister of National Defence João Nuno Lacerda Teixeira de Melo recently said.

Melo said in July the country will look to join either the Future Combat Air System (FCAS)/Système de Combat Aérien du Futur (SCAF) programme with France, Germany, and Spain (and Belgium as an observer) or the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) with Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

The minister provided no further details, except to say that a decision on which particular programme to join had not yet been taken.

https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/de ... -programme