Re: DE/FR/ESP: Future Combat Air System (FCAS)
Verfasst: So 23. Jul 2023, 13:10
Defense-Aerospace mit einem Abgesang auf FCAS (von Francis Tusa):
Frankreich distanziert sich mit Wort und Tat deutlich vom gemeinsamen Programm mit Deutschland.
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/paris ... uffed-out/
In Auszügen:
"But you would have been crushed by the number of different Rafale models [at Le Bourget], including a collection of 1:5-scale ones in the paint schemes of every operator. It looked good!
Any mention of SCAF in Dassault’s press conference?
If there was, it was so brief that Defence Analysis’s sharp-eared correspondent missed it – as did everyone else.
And two weeks previously, despite no mention of it in the Loi de Programmation Militaire 2024–30, Sebastien Lecornu told the Senate that the programme for a loyal wingman family, based on work done to date for the Neuron UCAV, was now fully funded, and it would see deliveries from 2030, and whatever is developed, as well as “effectors”, smaller UAVs/loyal wingmen will also feature, too, in this Rafale World. But if these start to arrive around 2030, what does this mean for the loyal wingman/effectors for SCAF? Hang on, who’s responsibility is loyal wingmen in SCAF? Oh, it’s Germany/Airbus Defence and Space....
And then at Le Bourget, Dassault and Dassault Systèmes announced a new initiative to create a French sovereign Combat Cloud, just, you know, if anyone wanted one. And whose responsibility is the Combat Cloud for SCAF (checks notes)? Oh, it’s (Germany’s) Airbus Defence and Space!
By-the-way, Defence Analysis suspects that Thales will have looked at this announcement with a degree of concern ....
[...]
Just prior to the start of Le Bourget, Onera, the French state-owned aerospace test/trials body unveiled its concept for a hypersonic fighter, named “Espadon”, or “Swordfish”.
So what? Well, Onera says that this could see service around 2040. So what? Well, even Dassault is saying that SCAF will only see service from 2040 – and Airbus is saying 2042 – so if there’s this all-singing hypersonic fighter that could arrive only two to three years after SCAF/NGF enters service, why are you even bothering with SCAF NGF?"
Frankreich distanziert sich mit Wort und Tat deutlich vom gemeinsamen Programm mit Deutschland.
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/paris ... uffed-out/
In Auszügen:
"But you would have been crushed by the number of different Rafale models [at Le Bourget], including a collection of 1:5-scale ones in the paint schemes of every operator. It looked good!
Any mention of SCAF in Dassault’s press conference?
If there was, it was so brief that Defence Analysis’s sharp-eared correspondent missed it – as did everyone else.
And two weeks previously, despite no mention of it in the Loi de Programmation Militaire 2024–30, Sebastien Lecornu told the Senate that the programme for a loyal wingman family, based on work done to date for the Neuron UCAV, was now fully funded, and it would see deliveries from 2030, and whatever is developed, as well as “effectors”, smaller UAVs/loyal wingmen will also feature, too, in this Rafale World. But if these start to arrive around 2030, what does this mean for the loyal wingman/effectors for SCAF? Hang on, who’s responsibility is loyal wingmen in SCAF? Oh, it’s Germany/Airbus Defence and Space....
And then at Le Bourget, Dassault and Dassault Systèmes announced a new initiative to create a French sovereign Combat Cloud, just, you know, if anyone wanted one. And whose responsibility is the Combat Cloud for SCAF (checks notes)? Oh, it’s (Germany’s) Airbus Defence and Space!
By-the-way, Defence Analysis suspects that Thales will have looked at this announcement with a degree of concern ....
[...]
Just prior to the start of Le Bourget, Onera, the French state-owned aerospace test/trials body unveiled its concept for a hypersonic fighter, named “Espadon”, or “Swordfish”.
So what? Well, Onera says that this could see service around 2040. So what? Well, even Dassault is saying that SCAF will only see service from 2040 – and Airbus is saying 2042 – so if there’s this all-singing hypersonic fighter that could arrive only two to three years after SCAF/NGF enters service, why are you even bothering with SCAF NGF?"