Europe is unprepared for risks from Russia and Trump, says Airbus boss

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/11/airbus-chief-warns-europe-war-russia-second-trump-presidency

Aerospace group chief executive urges UK and Europe to pool efforts and merge fighter jet programmes

Archived version: https://archive.ph/iEbjj

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Sheldybear@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

"Weapons manufacturer suggests Europe buy a whole lot more weapons"

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ironically, Airbus civilian division is more profitable than the military one.

Contend6248@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

As of now?!

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y

Always. Their military wing was always less profitable than civilian one. I don't know the latest numbers, but military side usually makes only up to 15% of total sales.

Ooops@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

To translate this from Airbus marketing to English: "Hey, Dassault. We are still pondering options to scrap FCAS and look for other partners, so you better give us some more shares of our common development and production."

And I say this as a German usually criticising the exact same bullshit tactics from Dassault...