Following the cancellation on Monday of the French-German-Spanish FCAS fighter design, 8 companies in the aerospace and defence industries , headed by Airbus, Apparently, he's planning an alliance to make an alternative. According to the Financial Times, which refers to a letter to the German Chancellor's office Friedrich Merz (70 years old, CDU) and Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius (66 years old, SPD), to which the paper reached.
Airbus Defence and Space, Autoflug, Diehl Defence, Hensoldt , Liebherr, MBDA, MTU Aero Engines and Rohde & Schwarz are reportedly planning to make a fighter and, according to Financial Times informants, announce their plans at the ILA Berlin Air Show. The CEOs of the companies are to meet there in the mediate of the week, sign an alliance agreement and present a task that, according to the Financial Times, will be called squad Gen 6.
Monday Merz and the president of France Emmanuel Macron (48) they agreed to end the stormy French-German cooperation within the FCAS fighter project. The programme, estimated at around EUR 100 billion, was never implemented and suffered from disputes between the companies involved. For a long time, politicians have not sought to resolve ongoing conflicts or announced officially that the task has failed.
If Merz agrees to the "Team Gen 6" proposal, the company, as reported by the "FT", will give European cooperation another chance and make a "sixth generation thinker for Europe". Continued cooperation with Spain is being considered, as is Sweden.
