What each country wants
🇫🇷 France (Dassault)
- 🛩️ Carrier-Centric Design: Insists on navalized variant for the Charles de Gaulle’s nuclear role
- 🇫🇷 Sovereignty First: Demands independent engine (Safran) over shared Eurojet model
- ☢️ Nuclear Strike Integration: ASMP-A compatibility is non-negotiable
🇩🇪 Germany (Airbus Defense)
- 🛬 Land-Based Only: “Why fund carrier features we’ll never need?”
- 🤖 AI-Centric Warfare: Champions autonomous drone swarms (Skyborg-style)
- 💸 Cost Hawk: Claims naval features bloat costs by 30%
🇪🇸 Spain (Indra)
- 🏭 Industrial Leverage: Demands 30% workshare and final assembly in Andalusia
- 🔑 Tech Transfer Threat: Vows veto without full access to flight control IP
- 📉 Jobs Above Jets: Links involvement to reviving aerospace employment
Europe’s Fighter Jet Farce
🇩🇪 Germany’s Betrayal
- Just bought €8.1B in F-35s. “Why wait for FCAS when America delivers now?”
- Demands AI fighter but won’t fund French carrier tech
🇪🇸 Spain’s Shakedown
- Demands final assembly plant or kills deal
- Holds project hostage for 30% workshare
- Zero strategic vision, just wants jobs
🇫🇷 France’s Arrogance
- Insists on nuclear carrier version nobody needs
- Rafale exports make FCAS look unnecessary
- Refuses to share control with partners
🌍 The Bigger Disaster: Europe’s Geopolitical Suicide
- China’s J-XX prototype already flying while FCAS remains a PowerPoint slide
- U.S. F-35 flooding Europe, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic all buying in
- UK/Italy/Japan’s GCAP moving faster, leaving FCAS in the dust
- The brutal truth:
- If Europe can’t even agree on a fighter jet, how will it stand up to China or Russia?
- FCAS failure wouldn’t just doom a weapons program it would prove “European strategic autonomy” is a joke
