Just realy nice, and thanks to share your experience.

😉 Je sais pas pourquoi, mais à chaque fois que ca par en couille sur des forums internationaux, les gens se mettent à parler Français.

I don’t know why, but each time it is going bad on international forums , people begin to talk French.

Well, thanks for infos Archibaald ! 😉

Good pics !!!

Another one picture of Rafale C

For information, the Rafale B-312( imm. 330-EJ) is flying.

AdA and Aeronavale plan to buy 234+60 Rafale. But due to the cost, production will not end until… 2020 or more!
Mont de Marsan CEAM (test center) receive one Rafale every two months or something like that. The aim is having 12 rafale in August, to make the first AdA squadron in Saint Dizier.

Yeah, and a great part will be Rafale B ( to qualify pilot on Rafale).

They will put in place the SCALP EG, OSF and Mica IR capabilities firstly.

[EDIT] the number of Rafale ordered will decrease, indeed, French Government decided to develop AESA radar for all aircrafts, the order will be reduced to nearly 10 a/c.

If say hypothetically the RAF were forced into a Rafale purchase, would the aircraft be acceptable as it stands or would they insist on a new generation of aircraft, say a Super Rafale ? They do have until 2012 to arrange the procurement as the ships are not going to be available until then, so a significant upgrade could be considered. There may well be some F-35 development funding money spare if they pull out and the cost per airframe could be less.

Personally I am not sure we should yet be playing a lament for the F-35 as the US realises that a significant part (if not all) of the export potential depends on an RAF order, but it might be worth developing the debate a little here about what might need to be done to make the Rafale acceptable to the RAF, if it were to enter service in 6-7 years time ? If say the MOD were to publically issue a request to the French to develop a desk top study to make the Rafale acceptable to them, would the F-35 problems miraculously disappear ?

I think the countries will bring their knowledge on each side to upgrade the Rafale capabilities, don’t forget that the Rafale is still in developpment phase and will be fully operationnal only in 2008, to be equivalent in capabilities like the F-35.

The number of 150 seems to large, because they will build only 2 carriers, and, if you include helos and support aircrat, I guess bad how they put all these plane in their carriers… 😎