{"id":73033,"date":"2026-06-08T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/08\/germany-and-france-drop-joint-fighter-jet-project\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:06:00","slug":"germany-and-france-drop-joint-fighter-jet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2026\/06\/08\/germany-and-france-drop-joint-fighter-jet-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and France drop joint fighter jet project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BERLIN \u2014 The leaders of France and Germany have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and build a new-generation fighter jet, two German officials said on Monday, ending one of Europe\u2019s most ambitious defense programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the troubled project on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro last week and concluded there was no prospect of breaking months of deadlock, the officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2026\/03\/04\/french-german-fighter-program-on-life-support-as-dassault-blames-airbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2026\/03\/04\/french-german-fighter-program-on-life-support-as-dassault-blames-airbus\/\">Failure to reach an agreement<\/a> on the \u20ac100-billion ($116 billion) project underscores the struggles Europe has faced in rebuilding its military capacity after decades of underinvestment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, which centers on a core fighter jet supported by drones and linked by a classified \u201ccombat cloud,\u201d had been in doubt for months as the two sides have wrangled over specifications and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A European source briefed on the matter said the two sides were moving towards a face-saving solution in which the remaining systems outside the core fighter, such as the \u201ccombat cloud\u201d of highly secure links, would maintain the same name: Future Combat Air System or FCAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The compromise is mainly symbolic since FCAS is a generic name for such systems and not unique to this plan, but officials have been seeking a formula allowing Macron to relinquish the core fighter without having to declare the whole project dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macron launched the project with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2017. 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