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growth potential of Eurocanards

this is inspired by several posts of late in the Rafale section, but thought it would be best posted seperately.

I am interested in the growth potential of the Eurocanards.
This is a thread not to discuss which aircraft is better performing than the other, but which one has a brighter future..

as in:

which one will we see more future development, a longer life, etc.

some interesting points made by fellow member Hyperion included:

-Typhoon having a larger user base, thus securing a higher likely hood of further development.

-Past Dassault aircraft were generally quite good but limited and expensive development saw their future being more sluggish in comparison to American counterparts which may have been older, but were still useful in way if continued integration of newer avionics, weapons, etc.

What we have now is:
Eurofighter: Still seeing more things integrated as we speak. Orders from the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Saudi Arabia.. and within this several of these users able to make their own weapons and offering Eurofighter an interesting variety of weapons.

Gripen: Sweden, S.Africa, Thailand, Czech republic and Hungary. Equipped to use a wide array of mostly american weapons but perhaps we’ll see S. Africa adding in a few things to it.

Rafale: At the moment just France, with UAE, Libya, India, and Switzerland being possibilities. Mostly equipped for French weapons (but still undergoing integration process). Says it can use ASRAAM and AMRAAM but can it yet? or is this something on the list of things to be integrated or that will wait until a customer will be willing to pay for it?

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