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Europe's $116B fighter jet 'failure' raises fresh doubts about ability to defend itself without US

Europe's most ambitious effort to build a homegrown sixth-generation fighter jet has collapsed, dealing a major blow to the continent's push for military independence just as NATO allies pledge historic increases in defense spending.France and Germany have abandoned the fighter jet portion of the Future Combat Air System project (FCAS), according to French and German officials — a roughly $116 billion project launched in 2017 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft intended to replace France's Rafale fighter and Germany and Spain's Eurofighter fleets by 2040. "The German authorities consi...