Dassault: the defeat of “doing it alone”?
The "made in France" argument and the $/euro competitive disadvantage does not seem very credible. One can ask the question whether an aircraft built in cooperation between "small" States (*) does not have a better chance of selling, of resisting market differentials than an aircraft built and used, solo. Quite simply because the efforts combine. To sell the Eurofighter, we certainly find the British but also the Italians, the Spaniards or the Germans. All have an interest in promoting "their" aircraft on the Rafale. Does France really have today, and tomorrow even more, the means to maintain an independent fighter aviation industry, disconnected from the market?
(*) Most European countries, separately, become "small" in the world market
Yes and no: the Eurofighter is a false cooperation, each has its assembly line, each its “catchment area”. And history proves that the English methods for combat aircraft sales are … No comment (search Serious Fraud Office, Typhoon and Tony Blair).
For the rest, it can be a negotiation tactic. And anyway, no one really knows the whole truth, so…
This is not the first time that the Rafale and the Concorde before it, even if the subject is not of an identical nature, this “pick up”. Only a common denomitator, it is French high technology. France.and…for the EU
The settings
The Rafale is French with recognized technology, the decisions that have been motivated by the Emirates (Dubai) are purely a choice under the advice supported by major neighboring countries, very influenced for several decades by a European partner not a member of the Zone Euro.Participant as a “faithful” European friend and accompanying France, which is joining NATO, may be entitled to ask the question.
Why? the dollar/euro disadvantage? No!
The “made in France”. No!
Do the so-called European politicians want a Europe that exists?
Unless the vision of "small states" is enough for their egos.
Let's continue like this you will be as powerful as a one-eyed man among the blind.
Nothing is decided
1) the Rafale is not “excluded”
2) the Eurofighter is not “chosen”
the negotiations are simply deadlocked over the price
http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/jean-guisnel/rafale-la-pression-des-emirats-laisse-dassault-de-marbre-17-11-2011-1397438_53.php
Dassault has never won a serious competition abroad, leaving it up to politicians to sell its devices
In France Dassault is politically capable of imposing itself as the only aircraft manufacturer and of preventing EADS from competing with it. The choice of an Israeli drone that Dassault imposed is revealing. The French taxpayer bears the cost