The comitee prefers the Rafale and will suggest its selection to the government, but the government has to make the final decision. Hopefully the Swiss lives up to its promises and makes transparent on what grounds the selection was done.

Switzerland is planing to buy 33 fighters with a limited ,maximum budget of 1,3 billion Euros.. So how many Rafales can they buy with todays prices??
not even half of the required number. You see the evaluation is not everything. Besides , in Switzerland when it comes to spending taxpayers money, people go to polls to decide and the latest opinion poll puts the opponents slightly in the lead so I read it somewhere short while ago.

Rafale dominates Typhoon in every category except one : Typhoon was driven by the need for top performance at high AoA and at supersonic speeds. This is where Typhpon is superior to Rafale and most probably the second best in the world after F-22. In all other areas ,Rafale has the edge.. The design and construction of Typhoon must have been more complicated than that of Rafale considering the needs and requirements of four different nations ..

You can also forget the French pilots anecdotal evidences concerning Rafale beating Typhoon 4:0 or losing to F-22 only once..Not to be taken seriously.

If Mirage 2000 is so better than F-16 why Greek ordered more F-16?

The answer to it is very simple.. F-16Block52+ is a bettter all-round fighter than Mirage 2000 which might have only a marginal edge in high altitute interceptions. But F-16 is more powerful and much better strike aircraft than Mirage. Block 60 on the other hand ,would win any confrontation with Mirage hands down.

Dassault might not be willing to give away their excellent digital fly-by-wire technology to Brazil along with other sensitive techologies incorporated in Rafale . Gripens most effective weapon is its price SAAB can only win if they offer a very very interesting price ( 72 Gripens to the price of 36 Rafale’s ) and more comprehensive technology transfer . RAFALE is the best multi role fighter in its class today with unlimited possibilities of upgrade in the future. Lets wait and see the final verdict…

Only because he knows Airbus will show him the door 😀

I am not so sure about it.. John Leahy can make the deal and lose huge amount of money in the process and ask French and German governments to make up the difference . This is how AIRBUS became AIRBUS …That’s something Boeing can’ t do.

And Dassault completely botched it by not realising that a plane with such limited range would interest absolutely no one. Fact, the Mercure was the worse failure in the field of commercial aviation, selling even less than Concorde. A success in its own way I guess.[/QUOTE]

Yes ,Mercur was probably the greatest disaster in the companies history and there is not a shred of evidence to prove or even to suggest that Dassault might have made any significant contribution to the development of A-300.. DASA and Deutsche Airbus GmbH were also heavily involved in the project from start to finish..

Dassault is not a designer of commercial aircraft, they tried once and discovered the limit of their competence in this field in a rather painful way . It is inane to compare Dassault’s competence with EADS and AIRBUS..