Europe’s $100 Billion Fighter Jet Dies, Killed Not by Washington but by Its Own Founders (opens in new tab)

France and Germany formally killed the manned-fighter core of FCAS, their roughly 100-billion-euro sixth-generation jet program, after the feud between Dassault and Airbus over who leads proved unfixable. The collapse exposes the gap between Europe's strategic-autonomy rhetoric and its industrial nationalism.