The future European fighter jet, the race to develop drones and the quest for autonomy in the face of Washington’s unpredictability will be among the issues dominating the Farnborough Airshow, which opens Monday in England. Held every two years, alternating with Le Bourget near Paris, this year’s airshow could also mark the comeback of Boeing, which is seeking to put the deep crisis that has shaken the group in recent years behind it.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “With the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s rise to power, there has been a real acceleration in issues relating to sovereignty and rearmament in Europe,” Pascal Fabre of the international consultancy AlixPartners told AFP. While the defence sector usually accounts for 40 per cent of exhibitions, this year it is expected to account for almost as much as the civil sector, said the event’s managing director, Gareth Rogers. Following its recent spectacular deep strikes against Russian refineries and military installations, Ukraine will have a large presence at the exhibition, where additional space has been set aside to accommodate its exhibitors. With their “battle-tried” solutions from the drone war, which are “of interest to a huge number of industrial players”, the Ukrainians will be “courted” at Farnborough, said Fabre. - Boeing’s drone - Following the abandonment of SCAF, the Franco-German-Spanish fighter aircraft programme, all eyes at Farnborough will turn to its main rival, the GCAP, developed by Britain, Italy and Japan.