Italy has rejected Britain's offer to join Germany in a project to create a new generation of FCAS (Future Combat Air System) fighters, the Financial Times reports.
According to the publication, on the Italian side they fear that the German aviation consortium Airbus will take away a significant part of the orders and production capacities related to the project.
The head of the Italian Ministry of Defense, Guido Crosto, in an online meeting with British and Japanese counterparts, offered observer status to Berlin. German authorities considered this unacceptable and intend to ask for full participation in the project, an anonymous German official told the FT.
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