FCAS / SCAF : The Future European Jet ?

What does the future hold for military jets? Stealth, drone swarming, increased autonomy? Joining me today to talk about this is Dr. Ulrike Franke from the ECFR who currently works on an expert panel discussing the use of new technologies in future military systems.

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Expert -
Dr. Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations:
Profile & Publications: https://ecfr.eu/profile/ulrike_esther...

Sources & Recommendations -
Elsa Kania, Battlefield singularity : artificial intelligence, military revolution, and China's future military power (2017) availabe at: https://www.cnas.org/publications/rep...

Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (2018)
US: https://www.amazon.com/Army-None-Auto...
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B073VXYD5...

Justin Bronk, FCAS: Is the Franco-German-Spanish Combat Air Programme Really in Trouble? RUSI: 2021 availabe at: https://rusi.org/commentary/fcas-fran...

Rafael Loss, How Germany’s Greens could spell the end for the Franco-German fighter jet, ECFR: 2021, available at: https://ecfr.eu/article/how-germanys-...

FCAS / Airbus official website: https://www.airbus.com/defence/fcas.html

Team Tempest official website: https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/tea...

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Timecodes -
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Expert: Dr. Ulrike Franke
01:37 - Capabities we might see in the future
04:40 - Future Combat Air System - What is it going to be?
07:35 - One Europe, Two Systems
10:21 - France vs Germany: Who gets to say what on FCAS
12:15 - Different countries, different demands
14:33 - Drone swarms: overhyped or system to be?
17:57 - Germany: the complex one
21:34 - Recommendations for you
22:56 - Outro

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Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

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