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 "title": "Schöllhorn Names Three-Fighter FCAS Exit at Hannover Messe",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/schollhorn-names-three-fighter-fcas-exit-at-hannover-messe/",
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 "published": "2026-04-21T00:15:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-04-27T00:01:46.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannover, 21 April 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Airbus Defence and Space CEO publicly endorses three-programme European sixth-generation outcome as workable, comparing the topology to concurrent US and Chinese programmes\n * Schöllhorn frames Airbus exit condition on FCAS as constituted: continuation requires balanced industrial partnership with Dassault, otherwise fighter element separable\n * First public articulation by senior Airbus DS executive of a post-FCAS industrial topology with ",
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