{"id":71597,"date":"2025-07-08T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/08\/french-push-for-greater-say-in-fcas-program-roils-partners-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:53:09","slug":"french-push-for-greater-say-in-fcas-program-roils-partners-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/07\/08\/french-push-for-greater-say-in-fcas-program-roils-partners-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"French push for greater say in FCAS program roils partners: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COLOGNE, Germany \u2014 A push by French warplane maker Dassault Aviation to raise its profile in the Future Combat Air System program is bringing new turbulence to the French-German-Spanish effort, according to news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prospect of increasing Dassault\u2019s workshare responsibility for some parts of the program to 80% vis-a-vis Airbus Defence and Space, the industrial counterpart representing Germany and Spain, risks opening fresh wounds in a program sustained mostly by the political will of Sebastien Lecornu and Boris Pistorius, the French and German defense ministers, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports about a formal redistribution of influence in the program\u2019s main combat aircraft prong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartpunkt.de\/fcas-erhaelt-frankreich-80-prozent-am-neuen-new-generation-fighter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hartpunkt.de\/fcas-erhaelt-frankreich-80-prozent-am-neuen-new-generation-fighter\/\">first surfaced on Sunday<\/a> in the German defense publication Hartpunkt, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/paris-demands-80-workshare-franco-german-fighter-jet-says-source-2025-07-07\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/paris-demands-80-workshare-franco-german-fighter-jet-says-source-2025-07-07\/\">report on Monday<\/a> by Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FCAS program aims to field sixth-generation replacement warplanes for France\u2019s Rafale and Germany\u2019s Eurofighter aircraft sometime in the 2040s, with date in the middle of that decade now seen as the most realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weapon will consist of combat jet at its center, accompanied by drones for strike, surveillance and electronic warfare that can be flexibly tasked by pilots in-flight. The setup is meant to be powered by what officials have dubbed a combat cloud, the proverbial brains in charge of sensor fusion and command-and-control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense companies from France, Germany and Spain have been cooperating for years on various aspects of the futuristic weapon, trading responsibilities across borders among the sub-projects, with France deemed the overall lead of a roughly 50-50 arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one pairing that has consistently led to problems is the cooperation between Dassault and Airbus in designing the main fighter\u2019s features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/04\/11\/dassault-ceo-strikes-dark-tone-on-europes-sixth-gen-fighter-progress\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" 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