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| Future Combat Air System | |
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.jpg) Mock-up of the NGF and a remote carrier at the 2019 Paris Air Show | |
| General information | |
| Type | Combat system of systems |
| Manufacturer |
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| Primary user | French Air and Space Force Spanish Air and Space Force German Air Force |
| New Generation Fighter | |
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 Mock-up of the NGF at the 2019 Paris Air Show | |
| General information | |
| Type | Sixth-generation jet fighter |
| National origin | France, Germany, Spain |
| Status | Project |
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), (French: Système de combat aérien du futur; SCAF; German: Zukünftiges Luftkampfsystem; Spanish: Futuro Sistema Aéreo de Combate; FSAC) is a European combat system of systems under development by Dassault Aviation, Airbus and Indra Sistemas. The FCAS will consist of a Next-Generation Weapon System (NGWS) as well as other air assets in the future operational battlespace.[1][2] The NGWS's components will be remote carrier vehicles (swarming drones) as well as a New Generation Fighter (NGF)—a planned sixth-generation jet fighter[3][better source needed]—that will possibly supersede France's Rafale and Germany and Spain's Typhoons.[2][4]
A test flight of a demonstrator is expected around 2027 and entry into service around 2040.[5]
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