Future Combat Air System (FCAS)

After years of talking about collective defense, the EU wants to make 2025 the year it really advances efforts to boost the region’s military capacity.

Aviation Week's defense team discusses the latest developments with Europe's combat air projects as governments there ramp up military spending.

The memorandum of understanding will examine opportunities for joint capabilities and technologies.

Airbus is proposing the development of the System and Teaming Advanced Research (STAR) demonstrator.

Airbus wants to extend battlefield connectivity of the Future Combat Air System to its helicopters.

Germany needs to move forward with FCAS and finalize its pledge to buy 20 Eurofighters, the head of programs at MTU Aero Engines says.

As European nations grow increasingly worried about security in the Indo-Pacific region, their air forces explore scenarios for operating there.

The Tempest program faces a political stress test in Britain’s new strategic defense review.

With CCA projects emerging across the world, engine manufacturers are mobilizing to secure a piece of the burgeoning market.

Airbus Defense and Space's Michael Schoellhorn said there may be opportunities for collaboration between the two big future combat aircraft programs being pursued in Europe.

Idbotic, a specialist in hardware encryption, will support Indra’s work on the combat cloud.

After a challenging start, France, Germany and Spain’s Future Combat Air System is progressing toward demonstrator flights.

In the defense industry, all eyes are on the UK in July for RIAT and Farnborough. We kick off the conversation with a special episode about the British elections and what they (and those in France) mean for A&D.

A wave of new orders and investments in capabilities is giving Eurofighter a “golden moment.”

SHARCS is a platform for testing various sensors, systems and associated algorithms that could feature in MBDA’s development of an ERC for FCAS.

Airbus has unveiled concepts for an uncrewed wingman that could support German Air Force Eurofighters in the 2030s.

The two companies are studying Pearl-family business jet engines as an option to power military uncrewed aerial systems.

Diehl's Feanix—Future Effector–Adaptable, Networked, Intelligent, eXpendable—is an under-300-kg (660-lb.)-class, turbojet-powered, clean-sheet air system.

Airbus is to adapt a German Air Force Eurofighter combat aircraft into a testbed for manned-unmanned teaming technologies.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has committed to purchasing another 20 Eurofighter combat aircraft to help support the country’s defense industry.

Airbus has lifted the veil on its concept for an autonomous collaborative combat aircraft that would accompany current combat aircraft into battle.

Saab is planning technology demonstrations to prove to Sweden's government that it can develop the nation’s next combat aircraft.

Upcoming talks could set the stage for Belgium to step up from “observer” to “partner” status on the Franco-German-Spanish future combat air system project.

France's General Directorate for Armaments, DGA, has placed the first orders for long-lead items for the country’s future aircraft carrier.

Belgium has officially become an observer in the European Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Airbus officials have stated.