NEW DELHI – In a significant development for India’s indigenous fighter jet program Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on November 7 inked a deal with US-based General Electric (GE) for the supply of ...

The collapse of a Franco-German fighter jet project and a faltering joint battle tank program show how national industrial interests can outweigh common defense objectives. Anyone who wants to be ...

The effective collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet programme is a major setback for European defence cooperation. France, Germany and Spain have spent nearly a decade trying to ...

A rare aircraft donated to Aims Community College will benefit students in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Training Program for many years to come. The Maverick TwinJet 1500, which was donated to ...

Planned as Europe's biggest joint defence project, FCAS has been abandoned after French and German companies failed to resolve years of disputes, despite repeated political intervention. After months ...

The next-generation aircraft project has been scrapped following company disagreements, dealing a blow to European security cooperation efforts. After years of infighting, the Franco-German project to ...

Europe’s ambitious Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has been halted following a decision by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron, according to media reports. The ...

Germany has pulled the plug on a joint fighter jet programme with France, in a blow to European defence co-operation. The flagship project had been billed as an ambitious and unparalleled military ...

France and Germany on Monday announced they were abandoning a joint fighter jet programme due to disagreements between France's Dassault Aviation and Airbus, which represents Germany and Spain. The ...

The leaders "reached the shared assessment that the companies will not be able to come together on building a joint combat aircraft", a government official told French news agency AFP about the Future ...

A model of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Paris, France, February 20, 2020. CHARLES PLATIAU / REUTERS France and Germany said on Monday they had agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet programme ...

European states have known since the early 2000s that they will need to develop a replacement for their existing fighter aircraft. Concepts for a ‘next generation fighter programme’ go beyond the ...