Unlikely, they’re mortal enemies.

not really. they were bed buddies for most of history until the 60s or so.
There’s many Chinese who deeply regret that China decided to back the wrong side (Pakistan) instead of India since India has more economic opportunities.
but its probably best for the world India and China don’t work together.

«*airacists*» LOL that’s funny, you just invented the word ?
You first said «*moved it to ground attack within a few years.*»
…now you say «*within 10 years*»… Then again not too bad for an «already reaching obsolecense as a fighter».
And you still didn’t named the air forces that moved them to a2g «*within few years*».

most. the M2K made your F1 obsolete in a2a rather fast.
if you continue to insist the F1 is so lethal in a2a, then why was the m2k made?

Super Etendard was a prime example of adapting off the shelf to solve modern problems. The F.1 was no different. The French failed to support their military sales potential by trying to push too much on potential customers. Mirage 2000 was unaffordable to quite a large fraction of customers. When approached by Serbia for Novi Avon, it was quite apparent that Dassault already had a single M88 option in mind. The F.1 was a proven design with reputation for being deadly. And anyone that thinks reputation isn’t important to military sales is fooling themself.

Actually over 33 Mirage F.1s were shot down in Iran-Iraq. they not only had a hard time with the F-14s, but the F-4s which are their technological equivelant.
Like I said, it was moved to a2g roles within 10 years.
nothing wrong with a2g, It was a very good a2g plane. some people don’t like hearing that because they are airacists.

This attack, not a fighter 😉

yes, must’ve missed all those bombs hanging under the wing
its okay, its only a 4-10% difference

Israel has a very serious missile industry and many aerospace capabilities in that, which France doesn’t even have, never mind Rafale export customers.

Rafale is a lemon, France has just squeezed a little more juice out of it.

Tejas ranks as a trainer at best.

The lack of funding for Typhoon has nothing to do with the F-35. The chief culprit isn’t even buying the F-35 and the other two have serious debt problems.

And a carrier that would never have any aircraft and we’d be stuck trying to come up with all sorts of bizarre BS about how our non-stealth fighter was better than stealth. And we’d find ourselves in the mid-2020s with a fighter fleet that was no-longer relevant against peer threats….. just as France will. Seriously, the M2000 will be little short of a joke come 2024 and Rafale unable to do the job unassisted by foreign assets, except against camel-touting suicide bombers.

Why will Airbus sink the rest. Airbus is doing very well in the civil sector, I regret BAE selling their stake in fact, dumb move. And this is yet another point. The UK still has Taranis, just as France has nEROn, it still has a 37.5% stake in MBDA, BAE is massive overseas and Rolls-Royce makes Snecma look like a joke. The market share and figures speak for themselves. The UK/European aviation/defence industry is only crumbling inside your tiny mind.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?140099-If-you-had-to-choose-between-Rafale-or-F-35&p=2346288#post2346288

wow you hate France more than:

KGB hates China
Nicolas hates Typhoon
Jo hates the Pak-fa’s inlets
Msphere hates the F-35
Deino hates being wrong