r/europe • u/Interesting-Cat7307 Egypt • 19h ago

News France Launches Development of Its Own 6th-Generation Fighter and ‘Super Rafale’

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/france-launches-development-of-its-own-6th-generation-fighter-and-super-rafale/
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u/let_me_atom 19h ago edited 37m ago

Does France have access to sufficiently advanced stealth technology for a true 6th gen fighter?

Edit: The downvotes are funny. The French are so tetchy, it was a genuine question 😂.

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u/Ok_Sprinkles_8968 18h ago

Stealth is not the hard part in making a plane. Making the engine is the hardest.

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u/yourfriendlyreminder 18h ago

So the French can't even do the "not hard" part of the plane?

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u/Beyllionaire 13h ago

They can? What are you talking about?

The fact that there's no french stealth jet today is not due to an inability to develop a stealth jet, it's only because European countries cannot develop 2 jets at once anymore since defense budget fell after the end of the cold war. Developing a new jet would have meant abandoning the Rafale which would have been stupid.

Any major European country can develop a stealthy airframe, that's the easiest part!

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u/yourfriendlyreminder 6h ago

I'm sure. Let me know when they've actually built stealth fighters at scale. Until then, it's all just vague and unproven claims of "capability".