Europe's Fighter Jet Fiasco

But neither Macron nor Merkel’s successor Friedrich Merz were able to “impose a political directive on its industrial landscape”, say Christoph Bergs and Linus Terhorst in this commentary for the Royal United Services Institute...Meanwhile German industry, as Bergs and Terhorst observe, “lacks the experience and expertise to support a sovereign combat air capability on its own, having never developed and procured a national fighter jet and associated engine outside of multinational initiatives since 1945.”