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Airbus CEO says FCAS project working well outside the core fighter

Wed, 20th May 2026 08:51

May 20 (Reuters) - ​The ⁠head of ​European aerospace group Airbus said ​he ‌remained optimistic ⁠about the framework for ⁠connected systems ​being developed for the FCAS fighter project ​despite ‌differences with France's Dassault Aviation over the core ​warplane.

CEO Guillaume Faury ‌said France, Germany and Spain ‌were now reassessing the future of the troubled ​project and noted it ‌had been conceived under tighter budget constraints ⁠before ⁠the Ukraine war, ‌when parties were more ​willing ​to ‌compromise on specifications. (Reporting by Tim Hepher, Editing by Louise Heavens)

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