I wouldn’t be too sure about Brazil, Dilma Rouseff and her new Defence Minister aren’t as susceptible to Sarkozy’s assiduous courting as her predecessor. They’re most likely to go for the lowest cost option i.e. Gripen.

http://rafale.freeforums.org/post1057.html#p1057

In September 2011 :
http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/le-bresil-n-est-pas-en-mesure-d-acheter-le-rafale.N159385
“If the choice was to be made, it would be in favour of the Rafale” -Dilma Roussef.

Congratulations to France and Dassault — TMor you should really change that avatar now!

Too bad ! My trolling attempt doesn’t work ! 😀

Thank you, Loke (and others who congratulated France).

I will now change my avatar from this :

… to this :

However, the contract is not inked yet. There is still a lot to do.

Definite evidence that Rafale is the best fighter… EVER. 😎

@ Sintra : none of your pics show a delta winged fighter…

… and loose all real advantages the Rafale have.

Could you please link to a source stating this? Or is this something you assume?

We French didn’t bring the argument of value for money.

Can you please give us a source stating this was the Swiss’ argument ?

No. They said they didn’t choose the best so as to save money, accepting a lesser capable fighter.

Also, the Sign’s attempt about cars is wrong : it would have more to do with a family searching for a car capable of bringing the 6 kids and the boat to the sea 1000km away. Armasuisse proposed a good car doing so, but expensive. Then, the family prefered not to go to sea, and save money for something else, like buying new clothes/shoes for the kids. Of course, the comparison must stop right now.

There is nothing wrong about this choice. The problem is that from the begining, the ambitions were unrealistic, and thus, the evaluation pointless.

Now, there’s already another topic about this, and here, this is Rafale news.

Thanks.

Eurofighter was neither the best nor the cheapest. Complaining would have been quite strange.

Swiss launched a detailed evaluation by Armassuisse to select a fighter, and after a comprehensive study (AFAR, with price and offsets in mind), Armasuisse proposed the Rafale. All this evaluation has been pointless, and if the goal was to get Gripen at the lowest price, then Eurofighter and Dassault were slapped. Once again, I mean.

So, why would Dassault avoid to make a little statement about their surprise ?