It took less than 2 years to move from the idea to the signing of the first industrial design contract for what will prove to be Europe's most ambitious industrial defense program in history.
It was on the occasion of the inauguration of the new research center of the French engine manufacturer Safran in Gennevillier that the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, and her German counterpart, Ursula von der Leyen, have signed the first industrial collaboration agreement concerning the FCAS program, relating to the motorization of the system, entrusted to the French Safran and the German MTU.
The industrial sharing for the development of this next generation of engines seems already defined, Safran, main architect and integrator of the project, carrying out the hot and high pressure parts, while MTU, in charge of the service part, was entrusted with regulation and the low pressure turbine.
The two groups are used to collaborating, having notably co-developed with Rolls-Royce and the Italian ITP the TP-400 D6 engine equipping the A400M. The Minister of the Armed Forces also notified Safran of the study contract for the Turenne 2 program, to develop new high-pressure, high-temperature turbines, particularly as part of the evolution of the M88 engine equipping the Rafale.