The Rafale started with the Rafale A demonstrator, which was a follow on to the Mirage 4000, demonstrating aircraft manoeuvrabiltiy VS instability using forward canards. Both were land based aircraft. The design for the Rafale M with reinforce landing gear and different intakes came after the first series of Rafale B/C. The rafale
NEVER (do you like the underline?) started as a carrier based aircraft. Therefore I come back to my first comment. Quite successful for an aircraft firstly designed as land based
So I would drop the patronising tone Mr and like the other one said go and BOF on your aircraft recce and history.
