Agreement reached between Dassault Aviation and Airbus on the combat aircraft of the future

For a year, a dispute had opposed the two manufacturers, which had frozen this project, the most ambitious launched in Europe in terms of cooperation in armaments. And whose challenge is to ensure the security and defense of the old continent, by giving a successor to the Rafale built by Dassault Aviation* and to the Eurofighter, developed by a consortium associating Airbus, the British BAE and the Italian Alenia . After tight negotiations, an agreement was reached. It reaffirms France’s leading role, that of prime contractor and architect of Dassault Aviation’s NGF. It also protects the intellectual property of French technologies and know-how. France, for its part, reaffirmed its freedom to export NGF, a “ known data of Germany and Spain, the two Scaf partner countries, on which France will not return », in the words of Sébastien Lecornu. The industrial agreement paves the way for the signing of the study contract…