While the last three decades have seen Europe support three combat jet fighters of the fourth/fourth-plus generation – the Swedish Gripen and French Rafale national programmes and the four-nation Eurofighter programme – by 2018 the continent was embarking on two distinct efforts to build a sixth-generation fighter.
Sixth-gen horizons: Europe's simmering fighter race
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