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Europe's most ambitious effort to build a homegrown sixth-generation fighter jet has collapsed, dealing a major blow to the continent's push for military independence just as NATO allies pledge ...

Planned as Europe's biggest joint defence project, FCAS has been abandoned after French and German companies failed to resolve years of disputes, despite repeated political intervention. After months ...

For the first time, a NATO jet shot down a drone over eastern Latvia. According to the military, the drone entered Latvian airspace due to "Russian electromagnetic warfare." A French military Rafale ...

A few hours before the inauguration of the Berlin ILA airshow, the German Chancellor unsurprisingly announced the end of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). Launched by Emmanuel Macron and Angela ...

Paris and Berlin conclude firms involved unable to agree on way forward in blow to Europe’s common defence push France and Germany have concluded that the companies involved in building a joint ...

Project collapsed due to industrial rivalries Airbus and Dassault Aviation were deadlocked Europe under pressure from U.S. to rearm Germany, France consider face-saving solution, source says ...

A model of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Paris, France, February 20, 2020. CHARLES PLATIAU / REUTERS France and Germany said on Monday they had agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet programme ...

Germany has pulled the plug on a joint fighter jet programme with France, in a blow to European defence co-operation. The flagship project had been billed as an ambitious and unparalleled military ...

BERLIN — The collapse of a €100 billion program to build a European next-generation jet fighter has countries scrambling for options. For nearly a decade, the Future Combat Air System was supposed to ...

The collapse of a Franco-German fighter jet project and a faltering joint battle tank program show how national industrial interests can outweigh common defense objectives. Anyone who wants to be ...