France and Germany agreed to scrap their joint-yet-troubled 100 billion euro project to build a next-generation European fighter jet after stakeholders failed to agree on just which country would be in overall charge.
The project, known as Future Combat Air System (FCAS), was launched in 2017 by French President Emmanuel Macron and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel that sought to develop replacement fighter jets to France’s Rafale and the Eurofighter, used by Germany and Spain, which joined the program in 2019.
Rollout of the troubled, would-be replacements was set for 2040 – at the very earliest.
The ambitious project also called for the…
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