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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by selfmodruntime on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:40PM (#48452571)
The EU is effectively paralysed in foreign affairs and a common fighter jet project died just today due to economic infighting. They're right.
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by laughing_man on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:45PM (#48454608)
Seriously? This keeps happening over and over.
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by l23k4 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:18AM (#48456784)
This is a deeply dishonest characterization of the FCAS.
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by selfmodruntime on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:06PM (#48469062)
How so? Neither Germany nor France wanted to meaningly influence Airbus nor Dassault Aviation in any way to solve internal bickering. There was a ton of political bargaining over subsystems and job guarantees.

Of course, I can go off of what‘s publicly available.

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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by l23k4 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:45AM (#48477103)
Neither of them could, there was a very slim set of circumstances where their goals might have sufficiently lined up for this to work. They studied it, arrived at the conclusion that it wasn't going to happen.

To frame this as something that should happen is just taking an overly simplistic view on how fighter jet development works. Even if everything went perfectly, it's far from obvious that a Franco-German designed fighter could be better than a purely French one.

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