31 January 2012, 11:47 am
The Eurofigther lost out with the typhoon to a much older plane design Surely not the most modern aircraft in Europe lost out to a design from the 1980's. Mr Euro smiley Sarkozi is happy do is David Cameron a bit annoyed at this news the defence industry in Britain are losing out on the big deals lately The Saudi's go for a German Tank, now the Indian's go for a French middle aged jet fighter? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57368718/indian-air-force-to-buy-126-rafale-fighter-jets/ I for one blame that top gear race where Richard Hammond nearly won against it in the Buggati ;) ? I know the item says 11billion dollars but a French site put it at 11 billion Euro which is not 11billion $ first flight of the Rafale was July the fourth 1986 design started in 1970 entered service with the French airforce in 2000 that is a long time between first flight and been put on station mark google it Rafale first test flight fourth of July 1986 entered service forth of December 2000 so that was 14 years between the first test flight of the airframe and the first one takign to the air in a squadron for the French Airforce... Read More »
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