LONDON (Reuters) – Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said he could see the two separate European programmes working on new fighter jets and combat air systems being combined in future or at least designed to work together.
Britain, Italy and Japan said in December they were setting up a joint company to develop, design and build an advanced stealth jet, named GCAP, while France, Germany and Spain are working on the rival FCAS project.
Defence experts have long speculated that there is not enough money or potential orders for the rival programmes.
Faury said on Wednesday that some form of combination would make sense.
“I think there’s really room to do things in a smart way,” Faury told reporters. “Each and every country could contribute its financial and technological…