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It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2019\/01\/31\/germany-officially-knocks-f-35-out-of-competition-to-replace-tornado\/\">ditched an F-35 option<\/a>, fearing purchasing that fighter jet would upset the Franco-German defense alliance with the Future Combat Air System at its core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials instead favored buying a roughly equal number of Eurofighters and new-generation Boeing F-18s. The latter would fly electronic-attack missions and serve as a bomb carrier under Germany\u2019s NATO nuclear-sharing commitments, the thinking went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The German defense ministry on Monday declined to say whether the F-35 is now expressly back under consideration. Conversations between Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht and Chancellor Olaf Scholz about Tornado replacement options, reported by DPA as having happened last Thursday, are considered \u201cinternal,\u201d a spokeswoman told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials pointed to a Dec. 19 Lambrecht interview in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, where she was quoted as favoring a \u201cEuropean\u201d plane for the nuclear-sharing mission while at the same time leaving open the possibility that the requisite U.S. certifications may not happen in time, or at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will consider all options,\u201d Lambrecht said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany\u2019s Tornado replacement debate is a recurring exercise for the country\u2019s defense intelligentsia. For the nuclear mission, it is now believed Washington would likely only allow a U.S. aircraft, although even the degrees of atomic readiness among the F-35 and the F-18 are disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Against that backdrop, the nuclear mission is controversial to begin with, treated as a necessary evil by the new government in the formulation of a defense and security agenda that also includes nonproliferation goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the electronic-attack mission, the German defense industry, led by Airbus Defence and Space, had lobbied against an F-18 Growler choice ever since Von der Leyen\u2019s recommendation, arguing the Eurofighter could be developed to at least a similar level of capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, introducing the F-35 back into the mix of German considerations, even the talk of it, could lead French officials to question Berlin\u2019s commitment to the Future Combat Air System. That, in turn, risks not only toppling the sixth-generation aircraft program but the European Union\u2019s defense-industrial ambitions as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2021\/06\/18\/german-defense-ministry-seeks-53-billion-for-next-fcas-research-phase\/\">FCAS<\/a> could co-exist with a German F-35 acquisition, especially given that the DPA report suggests those planes would primarily work doomsday stand-by duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">German industry should not be expected to actively support any U.S. aircraft in the Tornado-replacement decision, Reinhard Brandl, a member of the opposition Christian Social Union and the parliamentary defense committee, told Defense News in an interview. 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