Airbus is developing a new generation fighter The new aircraft is still called Future Combat Air System. The European aircraft construction concern Airbus announced that it is developing a new generation fighter. This was stated by the head of the military unit of the company Fernando Alonso in an interview with the Handelsblatt edition. "We are already working on separate components in Germany and Spain, partly financed by several governments, and we hope to increase the budget," Alonso said. According to him, the fighter will be a whole system combining the characteristics of a combat aircraft, a drone, a satellite and a command point. "We hope that France will join us, we in Europe should do everything together, there are no spaces for two or three different systems," Alonso said. The new fighter, while featured as Future Combat Air System, can replace both the still produced Eurofighter Typhoon fighter, and the Tornado, which has already been discontinued.