I forgot something else. Selling the Dash-5, which are brand new, is something that HAF isn’t fond of the idea. Also, selling the M2000 EGM/BGM, is something that would be possibly difficult. We tried to sell the MirageF1, we couldn’t find a buyer. And the M2000EGM/BGM, have now more than 15 years of service with many flight hours in interception missions over the sea and Super530D/Magic/AIM39 as their main weapons. For an airforce with no support structure for it, it’s not convenient economically to buy that, instead of cheap F16s. Thinking about it, France herself, didn’t want to include them in the Rafale exchange deal…

While in our case, the support infrastructure is existent for years, there is the possibility to upgrade them or, in case we don’t they can still act as anti-ship squadron with secondary A2A role.

One good solution could be Cyprus. It could buy the whole Mirage fleet and upgrade the old ones. The money from those planes combined with the funds for the new purchase, should be enough for 60-80 new Rafales for HAF. The whole packet will be attractive to Dassault due to its size.