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Jean-Dominique Giuliani: "Franco-German defense cooperation relaunched"

2022-12-04T21:56:41.912Z


TRIBUNE - The President of the Robert Schuman Foundation welcomes the agreement between Dassault and Airbus, which materializes the Air Combat System of the Future project.


Although the agreement between Dassault (1) and Airbus only announces joint studies with a view to creating a complete system for the combat aircraft of the future and not yet a real industrial program, it is to be welcomed that the decisions announced by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron in 2017 finally find a concretization in the project of Air combat system of the future (Scaf).

More concerned with its industrial interests than with the operational dimension of a weapons system that will allow Europe to remain at the highest level, the German side had introduced a third Spanish partner into a bilateral agreement: Airbus Spain.

It did the same for the common tank project under the pressure of a Bundestag itself actuated by interested industrialists.

Rheinmetall invited itself into a Franco-German tete-a-tete yet already carried out within KNDS, a joint venture between French Nexter and German Krauss-Maffei Weigmann.

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Source: lefigaro

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