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Europe to take on US fighter industry?

01 May 2001

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The creation of EMAC (European Military Aircraft Company) might help Europe in the future to compete with the USA in military aircraft. EMAC will be a 50-50 joint venture between the German and Spanish military aircraft components of EADS (Daimler?Chrysler Aerospace and CASA) and Italy's Alenia Aerospazio. According to Giorgio Zappa, the president of Alenia, the commercial results of the competition between the two European fighters Eurofighter Typhoon and the Rafale of Dassault will define the future European strategy. Once a winner emerges, Europe could field a joint solution to meet competition with the US fighters like the Joint Strike Fighter in domestic and export markets. The new company would have a workforce of 17,000 skilled personnel and a projected revenue of $2.21 billion. In the meantime there has been some delay for the common European venture as a quarrel about the value of their respective assets has broken out between the partners to be.

Jane's Defence Weekly 18.4.01. (Michael J. Gething); Defense News 21.5.01. (Douglas Barrie)

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