A Franco-German collaboration to develop a maritime patrol aircraft for the 2030s is on the rocks following Berlin's decision to purchase Boeing's P-8 Poseidon.Berlin insists it is "committed" to the Maritime Airborne Warfare System (MAWS) partnership with France for the joint development of a future maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) for the 2030s, describing the Poseidon purchase as fulfilling an interim need.However, Paris appears to be less certain. French aviation industry officials have suggested that Berlin's €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract signed with Washington at the end of June for P-8s is incompatible with the two-nation MAWS plan.French defense officials have yet to state whether the MAWS partnership is officially over, but an undercurrent of unhappy newspaper headlines and noises from French industry certainly seems to suggest as much. Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier described the MAWS initiative as a "failure" as he presented the company's second-quarter earnings results on July 22.
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机译：佛朗哥德语合作开发20世纪30年代的海上巡逻飞机正在柏林决定购买波音P-8 POSEIDON.BERLIN坚持下面的岩石，以至于它与法国的海上空中战争系统（MAWS）合作“致力于”为20世纪30年代的未来海上巡逻飞机（MPA）的联合开发，描述了Poseidon购买作为实现临时需求。然而，巴黎似乎不太确定。法国航空行业官员建议柏林的12亿欧元（13亿美元）的外国军事销售（FMS）在6月底签署的外国军事销售（FMS）合同为P-8S与P-8S签署的，与两国MAWS计划不相容.French防御官员尚未国家貂皮伙伴关系是否正式结束，但法国产业的不快乐报纸头条和噪音肯定似乎似乎表明了。 Dassault Aviation Ceo Eric Trappier将Maws倡议描述为“失败”，因为他于7月22日提出了公司的第二季度盈利结果。
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