Franco-German fighter jet clash clouds future ahead of Macron-Merz talks - Euractiv
Franco-German fighter jet clash clouds future ahead of Macron-Merz talks - Euractiv
Reported French demands for a greater share of work in the fighter jet programme have escalated long-standing tensions with Airbus, which leads the German side of the project.
I wish they could stop fucking around and start delivering.
Fucking around instead of delivering is a pretty good description of how a lot of German businesses work these days.
While that generally might be true, European joint defence projects including France unfortunately have a long tradition of having difficulties getting off the ground.
Granted, I'm looking at this from a German perspective and I'm keen to hear from a French perspective, but (reportedly) asking for a workload of 80% in a project involving three nations just seems like the priority is that your domestic producer (Dassault) builds it while the other countries pay for it.
I get that France cannot repeat the Rafale approach and have Dassault alone build a new domestic fighter, but then the workload should also be distributed fairly and the project be treated more than 'European financing of Dassaults plans'.