France and Germany scrap €100 billion fighter project (opens in new tab)

France and Germany have agreed to abandon the joint fighter aircraft element of the Future Combat Air System after concluding that Dassault Aviation and Airbus could not resolve disputes over a common combat jet, German and French officials said Monday. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron reached that conclusion after months of deadlock between the companies, with Berlin saying the firms “will not be able to come together on building a joint combat aircraft”. The FCAS prog...