Spanien schließt den Kauf von F-35 aus und wählen Sie zwischen Eurofighter oder FCAs
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spain-rules-out-buying-f-35-choosing-between-eurofighter-or-fcas-2025-08-06/
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Spanien schließt den Kauf von F-35 aus und wählen Sie zwischen Eurofighter oder FCAs
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spain-rules-out-buying-f-35-choosing-between-eurofighter-or-fcas-2025-08-06/
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Why not Gripen?
We can’t afford to live but at least we have war machines
FCAS wont be on the market for another fifteen years easily so they’ll just continue flying their decrepit FA18s lol. Just another way for them to avoid needing to meet NATO targets.
Wise choice Spain , they are way better off with Eurofighters, or even Rafale for that matter.
TBF, the F-35 is built from an American perspective. The EU needs a short-range thing that can carry a fuckton of missiles and/or bombs and can survive long enough to reach Moscow and get back in one piece.
Who would have thought!
The real impact of this is for the navy, means the Harriers will have no replacement and thus the LHD Juan Carlos will drop its role as a light carrier, coincidentally, the navy announced plans to study a CATOBAR carrier a couple months ago too, now its a matter of waiting and see what comes out of it, cooperation with the French and maybe Italians, or joint venture with the Turkish seems like the 2 possible choices.
The navy’s always been obsessed with maintaining a fixed wing above all else and that has had a consequence in the state the navy is in, so hopefully this is a good wake up call for them to start building the house from the ground up this time.
At the time FCAS is supposed to become available, the Typhoon will be all but obsolete. Claiming the Typhoon will be an adequate alternative for FCAS is like how some politicians in Germany wanted to ditch the Typhoon for the Mig-29 as late as 2003…
These plains, very few of them actually fly and those that are, is quite a huge operation cost. They cost a lot and, look, the global economy isn’t the prettiest. So, spending so many billions right now for offensive capabilities is just not a bright idea. The trend now is defensive, anti missile platforms, land weaponry, drones, etc, with costs that scale up at a more forgiving pace. Having the latest stealth technology to bomb cities that don’t have running water is just really an american thing, sorry. Let’s be honest, if you have 180 airborne incomings, there’s very little a F-35 can do.