If you don’t do what I say I’ll shoot myself in the head. That’ll show you.
Just what India wants to hear as they choose between the Rafale and the Eurofighter.
That isn’t a warning, it’s just good business.
If you cannot sell them ,why make them ?
Since production will be running full-tilt until 2018, it seems odd to announce in effect, “If nobody buys this turkey we’ll have to stop making it.” I think he’s hurt the French marketing effort, if not killed it.
The King of Bahrain’s statements about “unworkable…uncompetitive…” etc. might translate into, “You know, I really like this thing but I want a better price.” Perhaps the French need to sweeten the deal with a huge discount on a couple of their commercial aircraft. (Bribes, called baksheesh in Bahrain, work too.)
What a ....well...canard...
Does it have auto surrender capability?
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"If Dassault doesn't sell any Rafales abroad, the production line... will be stopped""If we can't sell it we can't make it." Well, duh. For anyone else this is not so much naive economics as an immutable law of physics. Only for a European would that formula be a problem. But we're catching up with our European friends. The Chevy Volt springs to mind.
So what exactly does Bahrain have or can buy that is “today's technology”? F-22?
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Why does almost every picture of the Rafale (and sometimes the Typhoon) show the canards in some kind of down trim?
Did they not design or rig the plane straight?