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“Do not spoil our fun. “ Thursday, February 12th, all players in the file were jubilant at the news of the signing of the contract with Egypt, which marks the first export sale of the Rafale after a series of failures. The defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, will travel Monday, February 16 in Cairo to sign with the Marshal-President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi this contract worth 5.2 billion euros with 24 aircraft Hunting, a FREMM frigate and short- and medium-range missiles.
Three first aircraft should be delivered by the summer, and the frigate, which will be present at the ceremonies in August of inauguration of the expansion of the Suez Canal. The Rafale will be deducted from the quota for the army of the French air and being assembled in Merignac (Gironde). The FREMM is the Normandy , a building originally intended for the Navy.
It all went very fast, from the time the head of the Egyptian state has made known its weapons needs the minister of defense, in the fall 2014 and the contract was signed five months later. “ We were faced with interlocutors who knew what they wanted. And this is the Egyptian president himself, accompanied by his collaborator, General Mohammed al-Assar, who led them discussions “ says a close case. Hurry to arrive, he even called two weeks ago concerned bosses Eric Trappier Dassault, Hervé Guillou (DCNS) and Antoine Bouvier (MBDA) to refine the …
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