In my blog post of 1 March 2010 entitled
Australia's choice of fighter planes [
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Joint Strike Fighters ordered by former prime minister
John Howard, the French
Rafale would be an excellent choice.
Dassault Aviation has just announced its first foreign sales contract for this aircraft: 126 planes for India, an affair of some 12 billion dollars.
That kind of economic news is welcome in France at the present moment. One of the key arguments of the Socialist contender for the presidency,
François Hollande, is that France needs to reassert rapidly and dynamically her high-tech industrial prowess on the international marketing scene.
A fighteraircraft is a forces aircraft designed primarily designed for air-to-air combat opposed to other aircraft,[1] having the status of conflicting to bombers and attack aircraft, whose key mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its hurry, maneuverability, and insignificant size next of kin to other combat aircraft.
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