But who is responsible for the failure of the Franco-German plane of the future project, the famous Scaf, the end of which was announced by Berlin on June 8? Diplomatically, the German authorities refer to the lack of agreement between the companies involved, namely Dassault Aviation on the French side and Airbus on the German side. Credited with a budget of 100 billion euros and initiated in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron with the then chancellor Angela Merkel, this joint combat aircraft should have replaced the Rafale and the Eurofighter, respectively used by Paris and Berlin.
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