Ça plane pour Rafale, it rolls employment
In times of high unemployment, it does not hide his pleasure. The ink of a first contract with Egypt (24 Rafale) barely dry, Francois Hollande won a second, this time with India for 36 aircraft, and the amount of running, according to our information, around € 5 billion. In two months, the president has erased twenty-five years of frustration, ridicule and bitter failures. With in the key promises of jobs.
With its new dimension to export, “the accursed airplane” would find almost through the eyes of its critics, and its place ranking large traffic successes. A just reward.
The “Contract of the Century” well under
In 2010, the Court of Auditors acknowledged that the program, estimated at € 40 billion over forty years, has derived only 4.7% compared to the initial estimate. By comparison, that of his rival, the Eurofighter, deflected by 75%. Not to mention the huge drift of American F-35, the cost of the frieze $ 1000 billion.
The story is even more beautiful than these successes in other call. First and foremost, the famous “contract of the century” with India (126 units), more committed than ever. But Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia are also interested. Nicolas Sarkozy, in the past, sometimes trumpeted too early to have sold the Rafale. This has bitten fingers, especially in Brazil.
In fact, the recent good fortune of the Rafale has less to Hollande that Jean-Yves Le Drian, discreet defense minister . “He does not see himself as a vendor, but as a facilitator,” says a source who saw the recent “work wonders” in the arms Salon in Abu Dhabi.
If 60 Egyptian and Indian Rafale will be sold turnkey and manufactured in France, should we worry about technology transfers envisaged for the other Indian contract still being …
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