“Plane of the future”: green light subject to conditions from the Bundestag

Correspondent in Berlin

The future European combat aircraft should finally be able to take off around 2040. The Bundestag budget committee approved on Wednesday the release of federal aid of 77 million euros intended to launch the first major stage of the industrial development of this hunter, which will be piloted by Paris and Berlin, in cooperation with Spain . "We made our decision in a short period of time because we want to make this project a success and not to weigh on bilateral relations. Today is a good day for Franco-German links, " Bundestag rapporteur for the project Rheinard Brandl welcomed Le Figaro on the eve of Emmanuel Macron's very political visit to the Security Conference. from Munich.

Discussions on the division of industrial responsibilities between the two countries remain difficult. Berlin fears that Paris will dominate aboard the cockpit. The French Dassault Aviation (owner of Figaro ), Thales

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