{"id":449499,"date":"2025-09-25T03:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449499\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T03:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:51:20","slug":"france-ready-to-make-next-gen-fighter-jet-alone-if-talks-with-germany-fail-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449499\/","title":{"rendered":"France ready to make next-gen fighter jet alone if talks with Germany fail \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dassault CEO \u00c9ric Trappier conveyed that message again<\/a> to French lawmakers on Wednesday. “I’m not against the project, but when Germany says it’s going to exclude France, doesn’t that bother you? \u2026 Unfortunately, today, if you don’t create a hard power dynamic, you don’t get results,” he told them.<\/p>\n

Paris has long insisted no delays would be acceptable \u2014 among other things because the next-generation fighter jet will be part of France’s nuclear deterrent \u2014\u00a0and has also previously cast doubt<\/a> on whether the current organizational structure could guarantee the project will be delivered on time.<\/p>\n

Seemingly backing Dassault’s request, the French official told reporters that “if we put the cursor a little more on the NGF pillar and increase the French share a little, [there could be] other effects in compensation on other pillars, these are options to explore.” In other words, that other aspects of the program could be shifted to favor other partners.<\/p>\n

Another issue is the aircraft’s weight: France would rather operate a 15-ton warplane, which is light enough to land on aircraft carriers, while Germany is more inclined toward a 18-ton aircraft aimed at air superiority. The French official argued that a heavier airplane would require a more powerful engine, and that could lead to delays.<\/p>\n

“If we express divergent needs with Germany or Spain, we cannot afford to be months behind schedule. If the needs are divergent, we must say so,” the official said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dassault CEO \u00c9ric Trappier conveyed that message again to French lawmakers on Wednesday. “I’m not against the project,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[473,34,2000,299,36,1824,2597,98281,54490,7061,12338,104,812,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-449499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-military-aviation","16":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","17":"tag-procurement","18":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-sweden","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115262907068348601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449499","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=449499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}