Comment on EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says
reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Good luck with those half-finished airplanes, then!
Comment on EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says
reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Good luck with those half-finished airplanes, then!
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That’s funny. Ironically EU has more defense companies that produce e.g. fighters than US does. What EU lacks is capacity, not expertise.
US only have: Lockheed Martin & Boeing. EU have: Airbus, Dassault Aviation, & Saab.
reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 1 week ago
What I’m alluding to is that most arms technology in Europe is produced collaboratively with components from both the EU and the United States, meaning that European countries as of right now aren’t capable of cutting out US-produced components without at the very least procuring some kind of replacement.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That is true, but it’s primarily bureaucratic issue as there active contracts which make switching a slow process. EU is actively working on this, even offering to pay penalties for breaking contracts early so companies can switch to sovereign suppliers as part of the new Readiness 2030 plan. And since most compoments even those manufactured by US companies are manufactured in EU or UK jurisdiction it’s somewhat a non-issue unless US government decides to directly intervene into private US defense companies business and orders them to do something or nationalize them.