Reason for the project\u2019s collapse<\/p>\n
According to sources in the German government, the dispute centered on the division of roles between the companies. Dassault Aviation pushed for a disproportionately large share of the project and a leading role in its execution.<\/p>\n
Germany, meanwhile, expected Dassault to adhere to existing agreements under which both companies would participate on an equal basis. Disagreements over the distribution of responsibilities had arisen repeatedly.<\/p>\n
According to ntv.de, the failure of FCAS is a bitter political defeat for Paris and Berlin. Macron had long advocated for European sovereignty and joint defense projects and was one of the initiators of the program.<\/p>\n
Different operational requirements<\/p>\n
Merz recently said the key issue is that France needs a different type of fighter jet than the German armed forces.<\/p>\n
Paris requires an aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons, as well as a carrier-based aircraft for an aircraft carrier, within the next generation of fighters. The German armed forces currently do not require such capabilities.<\/p>\n
Germany proposed implementing FCAS with two different aircraft variants. France rejected this proposal.<\/p>\n
FCAS is a joint project of France, Germany, and Spain worth over \u20ac100 billion. It involves Dassault Aviation, Airbus, and Indra Sistemas.<\/p>\n
The new fighter, together with a swarm of drones, was intended to replace France\u2019s Rafale and the German-Spanish Eurofighter. The first test flight was scheduled for 2028\u20132029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reason for the project\u2019s collapse According to sources in the German government, the dispute centered on the division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13060],"tags":[4664,2240,5,65,561,20473],"class_list":["post-32690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dassault-aviation","tag-dassault","tag-dassault-aviation","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-macron","tag-merz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32690","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=32690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}