France and Germany have abandoned their joint fighter jet project, in a heavy blow to European rearmament. The next-generation Future Combat Air System (FCAS) was scrapped because of fundamental ...

For years, Saab was Europe's outlier, the one major builder openly questioning whether the answer to the sixth-generation ...

The American giant Lockheed Martin is selling F-35s in droves, despite the jet’s operational problems, while Boeing is making ...

Airbus and seven other companies are set to launch a consortium to build a next-generation fighter jet in Berlin on Thursday, hoping to replace the Franco-German FCAS project that was scrapped this ...

Europe’s Future Combat Air System was supposed to be the continent’s answer to sixth generation airpower, a flagship project that fused stealth, data dominance and political unity into a single ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet programme due to long-running disagreements between the companies involved, the ...

An Airbus-led alliance of eight defence firms will launch Team Gen 6 in Berlin, a German-backed sixth-generation fighter jet project intended to replace the collapsed Franco-German-Spanish FCAS ...

Airbus's chief executive said Europe still needs the Future Combat Air System fighter jet program after the German chancellor called into question his country's need for such an aircraft. Speaking ...

By Florence Loeve and Tim Hepher PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) - French planemaker Dassault Aviation is open to cooperation after ...

After months of negotiations and repeated delays, Germany and France on Monday ended their cooperation on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). According to the Élysée Palace, "the German authorities ...

The effective collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet programme is a major setback for European defence cooperation. France, Germany and Spain have spent nearly a decade trying to ...

PARIS -The head of Dassault Aviation told Le Figaro newspaper that the company had reached an agreement with Airbus over how to move forward with the development of a next-generation European fighter ...