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Old 1st Feb 2012, 18:10
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Originally Posted by kbrockman
It's easy to be critical about the French but one thing is sure they certainly don't lack vision and healthy ambition, we should be honest with ourself and admit that they at least try to keep an indigenous fighter production capability alive.
Yeap, Rafale development has been long and expensive, first versions of Rafale 12 years ago were a little bit light, but now the latest versions (F3) have everything, so it's done... and beginning to sell !
Originally Posted by pr00ne
Its limited abilities over Libya and lack of deployment to Afghanistan stands in rather uncomfortable comparison to Rafale
No, Typhoon has never been sent to Afghanistan ? really ?

When being asked by the Americans in the 60s to scrap our high-tech fast jet industry, we didn't surrender...
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