Macron announces the adhesion of Belgium to the FCAS combat aircraft program together with Spain and Germany

June 19 () –

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that Belgium will join the European fighter project known as Future Combat Air System (FCAS/SCAF/NGWS).

“This is a great advance,” Macron stressed at the close of a ministerial conference on anti-aircraft defense in Europe. “This expansion will further anchor this project in Europe, at the heart of tomorrow’s air defense,” he argued.

The French president has also announced that France, Estonia, Hungary, Belgium and Cyprus will jointly purchase Mistral short-range surface-to-air missiles. “It is a very good example of European sovereign cooperation in a quite relevant area and that was not sufficiently covered”, he stressed.

Macron visited the Paris Air Show held in Le Bourget this Monday, an event that is more than a century old and is considered among the most cutting-edge in the world in the aerospace industry.