Le Figaro. - For the past year, the Future Air Combat System (Scaf) project has been suspended from an industrial agreement between Airbus and Dassault Aviation on the next-generation combat aircraft (NGF). Today, are you able to announce that this agreement has been concluded?
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The Scaf is a political project launched by President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2017, and stopped since the summer of 2021. So, yes, today it is done.
We have an agreement with Airbus.
All blockages have been lifted.
We will be able to begin the execution of the new phase of studies, called 1B, which must prepare the development of a demonstrator, which should fly around 2029. All that remains is the formal signature of the contracts within a few days.
They will be notified by the Directorate General of Armaments, which is the executive contracting agency, on behalf of the three partner countries – France, Germany and Spain.
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