Tag: Airbus Defense & Space Company

The US Air Force is reducing its next tanker order to prepare for the arrival of next-generation Tankers

A few days ago, the US Air Force announced the first order paving the way for a future order for 26 E-7A Wedgetail early warning aircraft to partially replace its 34 E-3 Sentry which entered service between the end of of the 70s and the mid-80s, and which are beginning to noticeably mark the weight of the years. If this order will indeed make it possible to renew a critical capability for American air power, it is also significant that the US Air Force has favored, with this decision, a relatively economical solution based on an aircraft initially designed for export by Boeing. Obviously,…

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A320Neo vs Falcon10X, who will replace the Atlantic 2 for the French Navy?

The design of a replacement for the German P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and their French Atlantic 2 counterparts was part of the Franco-German agreements in 2017 intended to give a major boost to the idea of ​​Defense Europe. , alongside other programs such as SCAF for combat aircraft and MGCS for heavy tanks. Designated Maritime Airborne Warfare System or MAWS, this program however experienced a thwarted development, in particular when Berlin announced, in 2021, the acquisition of 5 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from the American Boeing to replace its Lockheed P-3Cs. older. Since then, the program has been stopped, France and Germany believing…

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Poland orders 2 military observation satellites from France

For many years, relations between Paris and Warsaw were difficult, not to say execrable, the countries having important grievances to assert against the other. After Poland preferred the American F-16 C/Ds to the Mirage 2000-5 offered by France in 2008 despite a very aggressive offer from Dassault Aviation, which led to the closure of the assembly line of the he French apparatus, then the spectacular cancellation of the order for 50 Caracal maneuver helicopters by Warsaw in 2016, France considerably hardened its relations with Poland, in particular because the country had systematically favored since coming to power…

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Has the merger of the Tempest and FX programs convinced Germany to relaunch FCAS?

A few days ago, Dassault Aviation confirmed that negotiations with Airbus DS on the subject of industrial sharing around the SCAF program had indeed been successful, and that the program was now ready to begin phase 1B of the design of the demonstrator. If this announcement was welcomed as it should be by Paris, Berlin and Madrid, it results from an obvious softening of German positions, which suddenly accepted the red lines drawn by Dassault Aviation, particularly in terms of piloting the first pillar, the one that must precisely design the NGF fighter aircraft and its flight controls. At first glance, you might think...

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SCAF, MGCS: Franco-German cooperation restarts on good foundations against a background of concern

For nearly a year, the two flagship programs of Franco-German defense industrial cooperation, the Future Air Combat System to replace the Rafale and Typhoon, and the Main Ground Combat System to replace the Leclerc and Leopard 2 tanks, encountered immense difficulties around sharing and industrial cooperation between French players, Dassault aviation and Nexter, and their German counterparts, Airbus DS and Rheinmetall, putting both initiatives on hold. After many months of arm wrestling and tense declarations, no agreement seemed in sight at the beginning of September, with everyone sticking to their positions, and…

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Airbus DS offers South Korea a collaboration to export its new combat aircraft

In mid-September, Warsaw ordered 48 FA-50 light fighters from South Korea for an amount of $3 billion. The device, derived from the T-50 Golden Eagle training and attack aircraft, will replace the Mig-29s still in service with the Polish Air Force, and support the F-16s already in service, as well as the F-35As ordered in 2019. According to Warsaw, which has also approached Seoul closely with the order of K2 tanks, K9 self-propelled guns and K239 multiple rocket launchers in an unprecedented effort to modernize and expand its military capabilities, this order was largely influenced by the attractive prices and…

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For Berlin, the future of the MAWS maritime patrol program is in the hands of Paris

In September 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an unprecedented partnership between France and Germany in the field of the defense industry, in order to give what was then presented as a shared vision for the construction of a Europe of La Défense finding its pivot in the Franco-German couple. Alongside the now famous SCAF programs for the development of the replacement for the Rafale and Typhoon combat aircraft, and MGCS to replace the Leclerc and Leopard 2 heavy tanks, there was also the Maritime Airborne Warfare System program, or MAWS, which was to make it possible to design the …

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SCAF, MGCS: Politics regains control of Franco-German defense industrial cooperation

“Many things have been said or written in recent weeks, I think that with one sentence, we will cut it short by saying that the SCAF is a priority project. […] It is awaited as much by Berlin as by Paris and this project will be done, we cannot be more direct” In a single sentence, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sebastien Lecornu, cut short all speculation concerning the future of the new generation combat aircraft program undertaken by Paris, Berlin and Madrid. And to add “We need to think about what will be the fighter aviation of the future, since we…

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Can we save the European SCAF next-generation fighter program?

Announced in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, the SCAF program for Future Air Combat System aims to develop, by 2040, a new generation combat aircraft (the 6th at the last count), the Next Generation Fighter, as well as a a set of systems designed to provide the aircraft with unparalleled operational capabilities. Since its launch, the program has found itself on several occasions faced with major difficulties, whether related to political arbitration and in particular to the requirements of the German Bundestag, to the difficult industrial sharing between the 3 participating countries (Germany, France and Spain) and the conceptual and doctrinal differences between the armed forces…

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SCAF: the towel burns between Dassault Aviation and Airbus DS

The least we can say is that optimism was not de rigueur about the SCAF next-generation combat aircraft program at the Paris Air Forum. Obviously, the two main players in the program, the French Dassault Aviation and the German Airbus Defense & Space, did not manage to agree on the distribution of roles around the Next Generation Fighter pillar, the most imposing of the program which must design the combat aircraft at the heart of the Future Air Combat System, or FCAS. And for Eric Trappier, president of Dassault Aviation, it is now necessary that the decision be taken at the level…

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