Mock up display at Paris Air Show of the FCAS aircraft, the Future Combat Air System a Next-Generation Weapon System NGWS and a New Generation Fighter NGF planned as a sixth-generation jet fighter in development from Dassault aviation, Airbus and Indra Sistemas in partnership and support of the French, German and Spanish Air Force. Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France on June 2023. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
BERLIN — After the collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter effort, Airbus and a cohort of seven other leading German defense and aviation companies have formally banded together as “Team Gen 6,” saying they “stand ready to take on the responsibility for a 6th-generation fighter aircraft.”
Led by the European giant, Autofug, Diehl Defence, Hendsoldt, Liebherr, MBDA Germany, MTU Aero Engines and Rhode and Schwarz signed a positioning paper at the Berlin Air Show committing to the new effort.
The plans for a Next Generation Fighter, the centerpiece of the long-troubled French-German-Spanish FCAS project, were scrapped earlier this week, though German officials told Breaking Defense they would salvage the combat cloud portion of the project and other tech.
