Freshly out of the assembly chain, the two Euro-Eurofighter planes shouted the Turin track at 186 miles per hour before starting against the snowy Alps. Their destination was Kuwait, a flight at six o’clock.
The Kuwaitian army is the first foreign customer to buy supersonic jets in Leonardo, the Italian defense entrepreneur who manufactures the Eurofighter as part of a consortium with producers in Great Britain, Germany and Spain. Moreover of these transactions are likely because Europe seems inside to build its defenses in the business war of President Trump and its demands that Europe ceases to rely on the United States for its security.
The demand for weapons increased in Europe after Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2022 and persisted. With Europe producing more and better weapons, it also seeks to sell its goods more broadly on the world market.
The emphasis on the production of weapons is proof of a broader generational change in Europe, which made its soldiers after the Cold War in favor of social investments.
Giancarlo Mezzatto, a senior Leonardo official who was the director general of the Eurofighter consortium until December, bet that the antagonism of the administration towards Europe will encourage more soldiers to buy European weapons. Already, Poland and Turkey weigh on several billion dollars agreements for the Eurofighter, known as “Typhon”, instead of expanding their fleets of jets made in the United States.
