Europe’s Future Combat Air System was supposed to be the continent’s answer to sixth generation airpower, a flagship project that fused stealth, data dominance and political unity into a single ...

Germany and France had pledged to work together on the FCAS sixth-generation fighter jet, but their different priorities for the program appear increasingly irreconcilable.

The United States and China are the two obvious contenders for sixth-generation fighter programs—and various European nations have also committed to their development. The race to field a ...

Europe wants a flagship sixth-generation fighter to prove it can build hard power without relying on American hardware. Instead, the Future-Combat-Air-System (FCAS) is increasingly looking like a case ...

Europe is not going it alone on next-generation airpower. Instead, it is pursuing a pragmatic hybrid: buying cutting-edge US technology quickly while insisting on local final assembly, software ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A F-35 fighter jet flies during a media day of NATO's "Air Defender 23" military exercise at Spangdahlem U.S. Air Base near the ...

Airbus's chief executive said Europe still needs the Future Combat Air System fighter jet program after the German chancellor called into question his country's need for such an aircraft. Speaking ...

The Trump administration is, once again, going all in on the development of the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter while ...