{"id":25924,"date":"2026-05-28T00:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/25924\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:27:34","slug":"airbus-defence-chief-rules-out-total-failure-of-fcas-fighter-jet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/25924\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Defence chief rules out total failure of FCAS fighter jet project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The head of Airbus Defence ruled out the complete \u200cfailure of the crisis-hit Franco-German FCAS fighter \u200cjet project, saying at least a networking system for \u200bweapons and drone programme would go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Plans to develop the air combat system risk collapse due to a dispute over control between \u200cFrance&#8217;s Dassault \u2060Aviation and Airbus, which represents Germany and Spain in the \u20ac100-billion ($116 billion) project<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u2060Airbus Defence chief Michael Schoellhorn said on Wednesday he saw some unbridgeable differences between Airbus \u200band Dassault \u200bat the moment<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u200bGerman, French defence ministries \u200care working out how to move forward, said Schoellhorn. He hopes for a political decision before Berlin&#8217;s ILA air show on June 10<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 He mentioned options of having two \u200cdifferent fighter jets or a \u200bnew European partnership but \u200bsaid Germany could \u200bnot take on that project alone<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u200cTwo areas of the \u200bstrategic project \u200bwill go ahead, said Schoellhorn &#8211; a \u201cCombat Cloud\u201d to network weapon systems and a Collaborative \u200bCombat Aircraft (CCA) \u200cfor drones to accompany fighter jets<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">($1 = 0.8588 \u200beuros)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Markus WacketWriting by Madeline \u200bChambersEditing by Ludwig Burger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The head of Airbus Defence ruled out the complete \u200cfailure of the crisis-hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13021],"tags":[4616,19084,19086,6651,19085,19087,19088],"class_list":["post-25924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-airbus","tag-airbus-defence","tag-complete-failure","tag-fighter-jet","tag-michael-schoellhorn","tag-networking-system","tag-strategic-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}