Alistair MacDonald
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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There are still some things that the U.S.
is way ahead of.
And we've seen that in the clamor for Patriot missiles.
Europe's just not there.
But that's also a perfect example of where it's trying.
You have the European system, the SAMT, coming up with a new upgrade.
And then you have numerous smaller companies who are coming up with their own systems.
Yeah, I think they are.
And Europe is clearly building more weapons and ammunition, but that's in large part because it's spending more.
Whether it's becoming less reliant and increasing its own sovereignty on the US and elsewhere is a different question.
There are incremental examples of this, such as the Danes choosing a European missile defense system,
over Patriot and European nations investing in their own ballistic missile programs and setting up a lot more explosive factories.
But Europeans also continue to line up for US armaments such as F-35s and HIMARS and Tomahawks.
What happened, you referenced it there, with the failure of the German-French-Spanish FCAS program is an example of where it can go wrong.
I don't think it takes the sails.
I think it reminds the Europeans that their spending is less than the sum of its parts, that it's fragmented over a lot of countries.
The overall wallet is very large, but it's fragmented.
And then you have countries like the French who sort of want to take control and want it to be a French project.
So you're always going to get a bit of that.
If your taxpayers investing billions in something, you want the headquarters, you want the jobs, you want the IP, you want it to be in your country.
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