U.S. UCAV's Allure.

The British Defense Ministry is set to decline any French overture to collaborate on a Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle(UCAV), a move that may mark a watershed in Europe's development of next-generation combat platforms. France is looking to place an unmanned combat air vehicle at the very heart of a multinational military air combat systems effort, the European Technology Acquisition Program (ETAP). The remaining ETAP partners, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, are highly unlikely to be given similar access to the U.S. technology, with political and industrial imperatives propelling the development of a European UCAV, but without British participation at the national level.