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  2. From a pragmatic standpoint it's stupid to develop two different fighter aircraft for Europe, after all the USA develops one singular aircraft to become it's future main aircraft and either experiments with the next potential model or maintains lower production levels for older models like the F-16 or F-22 As for why, it's mainly to do with political and economic interests because if the two projects were to merge it could very well produce a superior aircraft and be more cheaply produced but then some military companies would have to merge some of their factories producing some of those parts, some would be bought out or have to merge whole production lines, people would have to be fired or be asked to move to another country to work on the project and test in the field, not to mention the potential loss of intelectual property and technology transfers. That being said I think with the war in Ukraine and seeing just how dominant the USA is in military fighter aircrafts and the economic costs and political issues around developing a new fighter program, I do believe eventually one side is going to make greater progress and show more potential for all sides that the other just becomes uncompetitive and will either stall and join or scrap the whole project to begin with and stay with the USA but in so doing they will lose out on domestic production. In my view I think the FCAS project has a better chance at winning out, simply due to the economic and political instability in the UK, the higher funds and scale of industry in the EU and Airbus and how two members of the tempest project are also part of the EU which means they likely would have more interests in staying in Europe then going with the UK and other foreign nations (Japan and Korea had some interests in the project but aren't clear on where they are going) The sooner one side wins over the other the better, hopefully they can speed up to something like 2035 or even 2030 if they worked together.
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