{"id":1018248,"date":"2026-06-10T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1018248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:15:23","slug":"fcas-future-fighter-jet-collapse-where-does-europes-next-generation-air-power-go-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1018248\/","title":{"rendered":"FCAS future fighter jet collapse: where does Europe\u2019s next-generation air power go next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Germany and France agreeing to end the joint development of a crewed sixth-generation fighter jet, which was\u00a0the core of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme, discussions around what happens next are set to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The New Generation Fighter (NGF) was a key component\u00a0of FCAS; a pillar that would sit alongside a jointly developed combat cloud and uncrewed loyal wingmen as part of a system of systems. According to a German government official, the core element of FCAS will be continued as a \u201cEuropean system of systems\u201d \u2013 namely the combat cloud system that networks aircraft, drones and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Germany and France agreeing to end the joint development of a crewed sixth-generation fighter jet, which was\u00a0the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,95359,148039,63523,97960,281723],"class_list":["post-1018248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-fcas","tag-future-combat-air-system","tag-gcap","tag-scaf","tag-sixth-generation-fighter-jet"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116727652850478446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}