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 ...

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 ...

In the works since 2017, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project has been bogged down by virulent disputes between Dassault and the German arm of Airbus over how to split the share of work on the ...

Canada’s interest in the GCAP program could amount to a rebuke of the United States, which has urged Ottawa to purchase the ...

The Tempest fighter jet was announced by the British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson in 2018. The Tempest will be a sixth-generation jet fighter.

FCAS is a French, German and Spanish project to build a European sixth-generation fighter jet system. This generation typically includes improved stealth, use of AI and an ability to deploy cyber ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, with its many variants, is likely the best-known fifth-generation fighter plane flying today — at least when it comes to Western nations. As of 2026, 1,000 F-35s ...

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 ...