The thing with Taranis in my opinion is that its all done in the UK, largely in secret and with aims that have been specified by the UK. It hasn’t needed any input from other countries and although we don’t know exactly what it can do, it’s such a successful programme that it must at least be a bit tempting to carry on it the same vein.
Although I don’t doubt that there is much to be gained from cooperation with the French, but somewhere in Whitehall/Warton etc people must be thinking that it would be easier to at least do part of the future fastjet thing alone without having to compromise with Greece or Italy or Sweden etc.
In fact it has inputs of techs developed for F-35 (be it US or UK, i dont know). Intellectual property is a pain for FCAS. Btw Neuron, after successful firing of “smart bombs” is going back to Solange and then to Istres. Future unknown, but i guesss it will also stop soon.
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