The European defense industry is experiencing one of its best moments in the heat of the war in Ukraine. And this Friday in Madrid, the meeting of the ministers of the branch of Spain, Germany and France made a good report on it. Margarita Robles and her French counterparts, Sébastien Lecomu, and Germany’s Boris Pistorius presented the signing of the contract for the Future Combat Air System (NGWS/FCAS) program at Air Force and Space Army Headquarters. It was not just a formal act. The three ministers publicly pledged their word that, come what may, by 2040, the sixth-generation European fighter will take to the skies and become a central axis of the defense of the European Union. The project envisages the design and manufacture of a combat aircraft equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technology, which will be accompanied by a fleet of drones. A combat system – Defense sources recalled – that has to process tens of thousands of data from troops on land and at sea, the so-called ‘combat cloud’. In 2017, the NGWS/FCAS project was initiated by France and Germany, with Spain joining later, in 2019. But this Friday, Robles promised that there will be no shortage of Spanish economic momentum. According to the defense minister, Spain will contribute 2,500 million of the initial 8,000 in which the project was budgeted. “Investing in defense is investing in peace and security. The Europe of defense is essential in a world full of risks. This release guarantees our daily lives,” argued Robles, defending that this “exciting” project will also be an engine for job creation. «Vassallos» Neither Robles, Lecomu, nor Pistorius have done anything to hide that the international situation is an incentive to step on the accelerator for the design of this fighter. These are, the Spanish minister acknowledged, “complicated and difficult moments” when a weapon like the new fighter seems essential. The French minister defended that the FCAS could be a tool to avoid becoming “vassals” of other countries with more advanced weapons and stressed that “the war in Ukraine teaches us that we are witnessing important technological leaps”. “This terrible war of aggression will be decisive for our competitiveness. Our defense industry has the ability and the will to be a pillar of NATO in Europe. It’s not just about setting up a fighter jet,” Pistorius explained.
Source: La Verdad
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