Fcas, turbulence in sight for the program according to Dassault
According to the CEO of Dassault Trappier, the decade of 2040 set for the operation of the New Generation Fighter is now unattainable due to the substantial stagnation of the FCAS program. The article by Aurelio Giansiracusa for Ares-Osservatorio Difesa
At the Paris Air Forum, Éric Trappier CEO of Dassault made rather pessimistic statements about the future of the FCAS / Scaf program aimed at creating a new generation fighter aircraft.
In fact, according to Trappier, the decade of 2040 set for the operation of the New Generation Fighter is now unattainable due to the substantial stagnation of the program; Trappier himself indicates in the following decade 2050 as a more probable goal.
The Director of the French Armaments General Directorate himself, Joël Barre, speaks of an unsustainable situation with the need to focus on the effectiveness of governance and industrial organization which for the DGA can only be insured by Dassault.
Trappier reiterated that the management of the NGF project must be conferred exclusively to Dassault, despite Airbus having requested its sharing and that there is substantial disagreement on how cooperation between France and Germany is intended.
This situation entails the possibility that France, at this point, will have to proceed alone (at most with the Spanish minority cooperation) in the development program of the FCAS / Scaf.
Furthermore, the CEO of Dassault said he regretted the successes obtained by the Lockheed Martin F-35 which between Germany, Finland and Switzerland has obtained orders for 135 aircraft and which has a wide possibility of affirmation in Greece with 20 units as well as in Romania. .
Finally, Trappier concluded by talking about the Rafale, which after the F4 standard whose development is now in the final phase, will pass to the F5 standard which should represent a sort of technological bridge with the new generation fighters and, therefore, will remain in service for a long time. , more than previously estimated.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/fcas-turbolenze-in-vista-per-il-programma-secondo-dassault/ on Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:24:11 +0000.