France, Britain to build unmanned fighter jet

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron are to unveil plans to develop an unmanned European fighter jet at a summit in Paris on Friday, Les Echos financial newspaper reported. The paper on Thursday quoted unnamed sources as saying the two governments aimed to build a "prototype of an unmanned stealth aircraft by 2020."
"This is clearly bilateral co-operation for the post-Rafale and post-Eurofighter (era)," the paper quoted a source as saying. The Rafale fighter jet is produced by France's Dassault Aviation.