UK-France Future Combat Air System (FCAS)

[TomcatViP]

Your words:

Apologies, I was led astray by the poster's misinformation

And that's was not personal? The poster's...

As it seems also your are very selective in your apologies.
That and your denial is even more insulting to say the least.

 

[Antonio]

Please stop personal attacks

 

[flateric]

PLEASE STOP POSTED STUFF RELATED TO CURRENT France-Germany Spain FCAS/SCAF HERE
WE HAVE A SEPARATE THREAD FOR IT https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...uture-combat-air-system-fcas-scaf-fsac.29201/

 

[TomcatViP]

@flateric :

Shouldn't both threads be merged?

It's clear that Dassault didn't discontinue their efforts with the end of the UK partnership. We have the same airframe, the same engine and... The same name.
On the other hand, UK's Tempest went from an airframe centric system (what Dassault's FCAS is) to a system of systems design effort (airframe was put on the last stage of the phased design).


This is why I had prioritized this thread for the FCAS news.

 

[flateric]

something says me that program with such a logo was doomed from the beginning

 

[Rhinocrates]

something says me that program with such a logo was doomed from the beginning

It looks like it was designed by a committee that never met, or two different committees that double booked the same room.

 

[TomcatViP]

Euro Male risks a 100M€ cut in funding from the European Union as Airbus choose a US designed engine, built by Aviano, for powerplant. EU officiasl are complaining that ITAR potential restrictions would impact negatively sales prospects... Of the 7 billions euros program (note: Turkish TB-2 costing 5M$, that makes the entire funding cut roughly equal to the same quantity of TB-2 as EU's full 20 EuroMale order!*).

La Commission européenne pourrait retirer sa subvention au projet de drone MALE européen - Zone Militaire

Après des mois - voire des années - de négociations entre les industriels et les quatre États clients au sujet des spécifications et, surtout, des coûts,

www.opex360.com

*welcome to AbsEUrdistan!

 

[flateric]

L'ONERA dévoile les 70 ans de son histoire : 1996 à nos jours – Le temps des mutations

La transition de la fin des années 1990 Durant les années 1990, le secteur de la défense

www.onera.fr

 

[jsport]

German Consortium Working On AI Backbone For FCAS | Aviation Week Network

A consortium of German companies has been contracted to begin building the IT platform that is expected to produce the AI systems for the European FCAS.

aviationweek.com

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