AEROTIME · DEFENSE
PISTORIUS BLAMES FCAS COLLAPSE ON INDUSTRY, ‘TOO MUCH IDEOLOGY...
France and Germany launched their flagship FCAS fighter project with too much ideology and too little attention to contractual details, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on November 9, 2026, blaming industrial disagreements for its collapse.
SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.