A NEW SIXTH GENERATION FIGHTER IN EUROPE???
""The merger of the two sixth-generation fighter aircraft programs in which Europe is working, and for which the CEO of Airbus , Guillaume Faury , has appealed again this month , is not only unclear, despite the voices that They warn that it will be the only way for the old continent to compete in the market, but instead one project could end up being three. And even more. Sweden is taking steps toward developing its own next-generation fighter. Specifically, the Swedish defense procurement entity ( FMV ) has just commissioned the local firm Saab to “study the concept of a future Swedish fighter.
This is a request “on conceptual studies for future combat systems”, according to the information provided by the company itself, which covers a period that extends this year and next. It includes “conceptual studies of manned and unmanned solutions in a system perspective, technology development and demonstrations.” In this work, the source continues, “Saab will collaborate closely with FMV, the Swedish Armed Forces , the Swedish Defense Research Agency , [the British firm] GKN Aerospace and other industry partners.”
Sweden participated at the time, and together with Italy, in the old Tempest program , led by the United Kingdom, but chose to leave the initiative when it led to the GCAP project (global combat air program, for its acronym in English), of which its two former partners plus Japan make up. Compared to the GCAP , the FCAS (future combat air system) is being developed in Europe , also with the obtaining of a sixth generation fighter as the main core and in which Germany, France and Spain participate equally.
Europe It could have four sixth-generation combat aircraft projects. Meanwhile, the United States is advancing its NGAD program , of which it assures that a prototype began flying a few years ago.”
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