Spat over Europe’s next-gen fighter program spills over at Paris Air Show

PARIS—Companies building a next-generation combat fighter for France, Germany, and Spain are publicly sparring over development of the program. Germany’s Airbus and France’s Dassault Aviation are working alongside Spain’s Indra Sistemas to build a sixth-gen fighter jet called Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, but Airbus and Dassault have run into problems over how to share the work, creating a tough environment, Jean-Brice Dumont, head of air power at Airbus, told r