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As the race for aerial supremacy in the next era of combat accelerates, Europe is honing its future defense strategies with the development of not one, but two sixth-generation fighter jets. Touted as the future backbone of European air defense, these two distinct programs - the UK-led FCAS and the Franco-German-Spanish SCAF - are shaping…

Brussels' decision to join the FCAS program had been firmly opposed by Dassault because of Belgium's decision to procure U.S.-made F-35s over French Rafale jets.

In which the Breaking Defense team attempts to explain the differences between the UK-led FCAS, the Franco-German-Spanish FCAS, the UK-Italian-Japanese GCAP and all the other sixth-generation fighter development efforts in Europe.

“My dream is tomorrow [the British designed] Tempest could take control of a NGWS [Next Generation Weapon System] asset,” said French Air Force Maj Gen Jean-Luc Moritz, chief of the country's Future Combat Air System (FCAS).

The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will retire the last three of its P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) at the end of January 2023 after 57 years of service. A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft is ...

Elbit Systems has unveiled a small unmanned quadcopter designed to locate, identify, and attack enemy personnel. Elbit classifies the Lanius as a short-range loitering munition. Based on a racing quadcopter, the Lanius is highly manoeuvrable...

UMS Skeldar aims to make further size, weight, and power (SWaP) reductions to the detect and avoid (DAA) technology used by its V-200 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) following recent live flight demonstrations, the company told . Janes A file...

The national partners heading up the trinational Future Combat Air System (FCAS)/Système de Combat Aérien du Futur (SCAF) have broken the deadlock surrounding the demonstrator phase of the project. An artist's impression of the New Generatio...

The national partners heading up the trinational Future Combat Air System (FCAS)/Système de Combat Aérien du Futur (SCAF) have broken the deadlock surrounding the demonstrator phase of the project. An artist's impression of the New Generatio...

Turkey has conducted taxi and take-off trials of its domestically developed Baykar Kizilelma ‘loyal wingman' prototype, ahead of a first flight anticipated in 2023. The Baykar Kizilelma ‘loyal wingman' prototype conducting taxi and take-off ...