Considering the UK has collaborated for both the Tornado and the Typhoon I still think it amazing that France can still 'go it alone' and make a commercial success of the Mirage (or should that be Mirages), and hopefully now the Rafale.
When the market place has the F/A 18, the F 16, the Grippen and (ex MoD) Typhoons it is tough out there - and I bet the Tech Transfer was an important point
((Memories of the NoForn source code for Dave?))