A lot of distration here vis Indian aid and other general flag waving, which is of course very noble but it does forget the general trend the UK follows in such things, that of self distruction.
Foreign policy has as much to do with these deals been done as any technical excellence in the kit - I guess we'd have the TSR2 else.
In the meantime the Rafale is (if its airshow demos are anything to go by) a pretty impressive bit of kit.