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Not in the defense world. These are sophisticated defense engineering hotspots who collaborate to make up for not having America's money.
by ARandomerDude 5y ago
Not in the defense world. These are sophisticated defense engineering hotspots who collaborate to make up for not having America's money.
- Apocryphon 5y agoWhy then and not France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.?
- fosk 5y agoItaly - believe it or not - has top notch expertise in producing military and space technology. I recall they also export lots of military equipment, of all types.
- jabl 5y agoAs TFA points out, there's a competing French-German-Spanish 6th gen fighter project, FCAS. FCAS is apparently already in some kind of trouble due to conflicting requirements. The French want a follow-up to the Rafale, that is a carrier-capable, multi-role plane with long-range strike capability, crucially including nuclear strike. The Germans want none of that, they want primarily an air defense fighter. For more details, see https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/fcas-franco-german-spanish-combat-air-programme-really-trouble https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...
- jhrozek 5y agoSweden is producing its own domestic fighter jets to this day (Saab Gripen). It’s latest generation was unveiled in 2017. So they have the experience but my assumption is that developing a next gen fighter is just too expensive and wasteful for such a small country.
- TravelPiglet 5y agoSaab already has a lot of cooperation with BAE Systems (British) and the GE engines were built by former Volvo Aero (acquired by British GKN)
- rjsw 5y agoDassault doesn't work well in collaborative projects. Germany keeps saying that it will buy lots of aircraft to get a large workshare then scales back the real order.