Sweden Pushes Ahead With Future Fighter Program

Sweden has moved ahead with plans for a new-generation combat aircraft, with defense firm Saab having received an order for ...
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Turbulence in Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project

Many defense experts believe the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) partners will eventually find common ground. The outcome ...
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Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS) 6th-Generation Fighter Is Officially in Trouble

Key Points and Summary - Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS)—the Franco-German-Spanish bid for a sixth-generation fighter—faces fresh turbulence over leadership and workshare. -Berlin bristles at ...
Air Force Technology on MSN

Sweden’s FMV extends contract with Saab for future fighter studies

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) has extended its contract with Saab for the conceptual studies for future ...
Flightglobal

Dassault warns over FCAS future unless ‘clear leader’ is appointed

Brewing tension between Future Combat Air System (FCAS) partners Dassault Aviation and Airbus Defence & Space looks ready to boil over amid a growing row about the lack of a clear leader on the ...
GovCon Wire

BAE-Led Team Helping Build UK’s Next-Gen Combat Air System

The British defense ministry is working with BAE Systems and three other companies to develop a next-generation fighter demonstrator platform and expects to fly the aircraft model within the next five ...
Yahoo

Merz: No decision on FCAS joint air combat system until end of year

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz gives a press conference after the 14th cabinet meeting of the 21st legislative period in the Bendlerblock of the German Defence Ministry. Britta Pedersen/dpa A ...
Aviation Week

Airbus Expects Bumpy Ride In FCAS Negotiations

PARIS—Airbus executives appear to be expecting a less than smooth ride as they negotiate the next stage of development for the pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS). Earlier phases of the ...
Flightglobal

Faury calls for shared systems on European future fighters but plays down merger prospects

Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury has reiterated his belief that Europe’s two next-generation combat aircraft programmes should move closer together to save costs but stresses he does not see the ...
Jane's Information Group

DSEI 2025: GCAP partners ‘open to working with others', but remain committed to challenging schedule

An artist's rendering released at DSEI 2025 showing the GCAP operating in the future battlespace. The three partner countries remain open to working with others on the project, but remain committed to ...
The Economist

Europe’s biggest military project could collapse

WILL IT EVER get off the ground? It was never going to be easy for France and Germany, two big countries with wildly differing political and strategic cultures, to collaborate on one of the most ...
The Aviationist

BAE Systems and QinetiQ Prepare Avro RJ100 Testbed for ECRS Mk2 Radar Flight Trials

A modified Avro RJ100 will support integration of Leonardo UK’s ECRS Mk2 AESA radar for RAF Typhoons, reducing costs and accelerating development. BAE Systems and QinetiQ are preparing to modify an ...