The French Ministry of Defense has announced that it has awarded the development of the next generation aircraft to the manufacturers Airbus and Dassault.
The French government made the decision to start the program for the supply of a new type of naval reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft alone, in the absence of cooperation with the German one, it was announced yesterday from Paris.
The French Ministry of Defense has announced that it has awarded the development of the next generation aircraft to the manufacturers Airbus and Dassault.
Based on the civil aircraft they build respectively — the A320 neo and the Falcon 10X — the two companies will design the new French Air Force aircraft, which will enter service in the 2030s, at an estimated cost of nearly €11 million each in the phase that of industrial development. In theory, the new aircraft will replace the existing fleet of 22 aging Atlantique 2 (Breguet Aviation).
Paris remains open to cooperation with other European partners, the ministry stressed.
Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel announced the joint program for the so-called air naval warfare system of the future in 2017. But in 2021, Germany decided to acquire five P-8A Poseidon (Boeing) for 1.43 billion euros, to replace earlier. The German Ministry of Defense then spoke of a “temporary” solution. But a year later, he announced that he was going to acquire more, up to seven more.
The next-generation French aircraft is expected to make use of a range of cutting-edge technologies, notably sensors, advanced communications, radar, artificial intelligence-based technologies and new weapons.
The 22 aging Atlantic 2s designed by Breguet in the 1960s and still in use in France entered service in 1965. Eighteen of them will be modernized to remain operational until at least 2030.
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