International cooperation in defence is one way to potentially combine national strengths, share costs, and build the kind of systems that individual nations might struggle to match. At its best, it can produce world standard kit and help equip multiple allies. At its worst, it can see billions expended and years wasted to ultimately not even come close to producing a functional fighter. Guess which of those is more applicable here. Today I discuss the impacts of the collapse in FCAS/SCAF and what it might mean mean for the countries involved, the broader 6th gen race and the other large partly European 6th program as it fights funding battles of its own.

Source: Europe’s 6th Generation Fighter Crisis – The End of FCAS & What Next for the Fighter Race?