“German taxpayers’ money would be used to consolidate the European aviation industry unilaterally in France,” assesses Germany’s aerospace industries’ association
“German taxpayers’ money would be used to consolidate the European aviation industry unilaterally in France,” assesses Germany’s aerospace industries’ association
or the Boxer program (France left when the French proposal wasn’t chosen to build their own 8x8).
Ffs… even Taurus/StormShadow happened because France needs to call all the shots every time. APACHE started as a French-German cruise missile project. Yet France refused to even consider any advanced bunker-breaking warhead and so Germany left to build their own based on what was co-developed up to that point. Only for France to then change their minds later and develop something alongside the specs as envisioned by Germany with the UK. So now we have 2 conceptionally identical and very similiar cruise missiles in Europe produced by separate branches of MBDA… the actual difference? More work done by French workers because that’s all that matters.