BRUSSELS (CN) — Europe’s biggest joint defense project was supposed to prove that France and Germany could build the future together. This week, it fell apart.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) — a next-generation fighter paired with autonomous drones and a shared battlefield network — was launched in 2017 as a 100 billion-euro bet on European military independence. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz killed it this week in a sentence: France wants its next fighter to carry nuclear weapons and launch from aircraft carriers. “That’s not what we currently need in the German military,” he said.
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