1) If you think Dassault has more experience than BAE, EADS and Alenia put together then imo you’re mad.
2) Exchange rates vary and France participating would have changed nothing.
3) Eurofighter has achieved more exports outside the EU than inside at the moment.
4) I’m glad France isn’t in Eurofighter. With a bit of luck we can kill off Dassault in the military export market.
1) Back in the early/mid eighties, Dassault did have (far) more experience in designing delta canard fighters. There is no question about that. You can’t compare the initial and very parial experiments made separatly by UK/Germany/Italy with the expertise gathered by Dassault thanks to the delta mirage family and especialy, the mirage 50, the mirage NG, the mirage 4000 (not to mention the mirage 2000)
Just look at the time the Eurofighter team needed to design and produced their first prototype (8 years) and look how different it was from the EAP demonstrator. In the meantime Dassault, with at least 3 time less manpower, managed to built the rafale C01 AND the rafale M01 prototypes in only 5 years.
The Gap between the 2 project timelines illustrate very well the fact that the eurofighter team did lack some experience and had a lot to learn even after the EAP.
Now, The eurofighter is flying for 14 years, so we can assume that the experience gap does not exist anymore.
3) European countries are may be less easily corrupted (or may be not :D)
4) If Dassault dies it will be “thanks” to the USA, not you :p
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