FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from Russia FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from Russia France and Germany’s plan to build a fighter jet of the future, planned to come with a swarm of drones and a “combat communications cloud”, is collapsing. Friedrich Merz , the German chancellor, said this week that the €100bn programme no longer worked for him. He insisted it