Esclusivo: l’industria francese vuole una leadership unica in jet da combattimento congiunto – documento

It’s nicknamed French controlled Air System for a reason…

Oh look, France doing the usual.

then why even bother having a partnership…

>The FCAS project, with an estimated cost of more than 100 billion euros ($117.07 billion) and in which Spain is also a partner, has been plagued by delays and infighting over workshare and intellectual property rights between France and Germany, as well as their respective national industries.

100 billion is ridiculously optimistic.

Bit of a disaster for Germany here. Can’t join GCAP because UK-Italy-Japan are cemented in their positions. Whether they like it or not they’re stuck with France. And the French of course knows this, and they also know that they have all the expertise to go and do this all on their own whereas Germany doesn’t. So for Germany this could be a situation where they’re going to have to accept that the French probably have the leverage to assume leadership.

And again another hit piece from the German media which continues to try undermining the French mic in order to get more contract. It did not shock them when the German mic wanted the majority of the common tank project.

Same as the fake news about the 80% that have been debunked later.

Germany does not want to fulfill it’s obligations and has been renegotiating from day 1. They did the same on the Eurofighter on multiple level and had to be bailed out twice and created massive delay on top of underperforming themselves.

They only provide money, have no real experience considering they fucked up their part on the Eurofighter but still want the majority of the workload and French techs (which is the basis for the new fighter) to prop up their flagging manned plane mic.

They made a mess of the Eurodrone development and have no real achievement to boast by themselves for the FCAS fighter pillar.

It’s not for nothing that Germany is the common denominator of failed and massively delayed project across the Europeans countries joint development.

I mean it’s France, this is a surprise to absolutely no one.

**F**rance **C**an’t **A**ctually **S**hare

Yes, we want the leadership in the FCAS program, because it is what was AGREED from day one, just like it was agreed on day one that Germany would have the leadership in the MGCS program. But as always, Germany wants to fuck us by renegotiating constantly to get the maximum amount of shares in the FCAS, and even pushed for the inclusion of Spain in the program so that Airbus would have a lot more weight in the program. But on the opposite, we are not seeking to get more shares in the MGCS program, because we stick to what was agreed. But in the end, Germany doesn’t give a shit about the MGCS because they have the Panther and are making the Leopard 3. So in the end, Germany fucks us twice, they want the biggest share of the FCAS and our know-how, and they will likely do the bare minimum, or even leave the MGCS, because they have no interest in it, and we’ll end up with a crappy tank.

And for the little geniuses who think it’s because of France that this project will likely fail, you just have to see the franco-british projects which didn’t have much problems: SEPECAT Jaguar and SCALP/Storm Shadow for the military, and Concorde for the civilian.

But yeah, as always, it’s always the fault of the arrogant french, because the germans have always known better than everyone else, right ?

I’m tired of the german media bullshit.

German companies are taking the lead with the tanks because they have a stronger expertise, so why a French company could not be leading the new fighter program if it has more expertise ?

Damn sounds like literally every European Joint Defense project that tries to involve France.