Tag: Dassault Aviation

Can the future standard Rafale F5 evolve into a Super Rafale?

A few days ago, the first Rafale to the F4.1 standard was delivered to the Military Air Expertise Center, or CEAM, at Air Base 118 in Mont-de-Marsan. This new standard will equip the Rafale with new expected capabilities, such as the helmet sight, new air-to-air and air-to-ground modes of its engagement system, extended data fusion and a completely modernized SPECTRA self-protection system. . In addition, the device will be able to implement new ammunition such as the short and medium range air-to-air missile MICA NG which promises to be the best in its category, as was the MICA at the beginning of the…

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Should the UAE Mirage 2000-9 be taken over to densify the Air and Space Force?

The next French military programming law, which will cover the period 2024 to 2030, promises to be ambitious, with a defense effort brought to more than 2,25% of GDP, and an increase of nearly 35% in the budget allocation. to armies. However, in the opinion of many analysts and former senior and general officers, it will not make it possible to remedy certain critical shortcomings of the armed forces, particularly in terms of format. This will be the case for the Air and Space Force fighter fleet, which will certainly experience an increase in power with the delivery of 80 Rafale aircraft over this period, reinforcing…

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F-35A, Su-75, FC-31..: which fighter will replace the F-16 of the United Arab Emirates?

In September 2020, against the backdrop of a historic agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, US President Donald Trump announced the acquisition by Abu Dhabi of Reaper drones, but also of EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft and above all of 50 next-generation F-35A fighters, a first in the Middle East. Despite the colossal amount of $23 billion represented by this order, Congress was more than circumspect about it. And despite the efforts of President Trump who, until the last day of his mandate, tried to force the hand of US parliamentarians to endorse the order, it was immediately suspended by Joe Biden barely...

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A320Neo vs Falcon10X, who will replace the Atlantic 2 for the French Navy?

The design of a replacement for the German P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and their French Atlantic 2 counterparts was part of the Franco-German agreements in 2017 intended to give a major boost to the idea of ​​Defense Europe. , alongside other programs such as SCAF for combat aircraft and MGCS for heavy tanks. Designated Maritime Airborne Warfare System or MAWS, this program however experienced a thwarted development, in particular when Berlin announced, in 2021, the acquisition of 5 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from the American Boeing to replace its Lockheed P-3Cs. older. Since then, the program has been stopped, France and Germany believing…

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Colombia announces the failure of the Rafale contract... and the order of CAESAR guns for $101 million

Update: Bis Repetita. Only a few hours after announcing the order of CAESAR from Nexter, the Colombian authorities backtracked, to confirm the order of 18 ATMOS systems from the Israeli Elbit instead. According to Bogota, Nexter had refused to waive the 12% increase in its prices vis-à-vis the initial quotation, while Elbit agreed to waive this increase. Like the Rafale, the CAESAR came out on top in the evaluations carried out by the Colombian armies. Obviously, the announcement made by the Colombian president two weeks ago regarding an upcoming order for 16 Rafale aircraft by…

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The Colombian Rafale order could take place before the end of 2022

Less than a week ago, we listed in an article the potential future Rafale contracts for the year 2023. Of the 6 countries mentioned, Colombia was then the one with the shortest probable deadlines, while airlines of the country had announced that the French aircraft best met their needs in the face of the American F-16V and the Swedish JAS-39 Gripen E/F, and that the Colombian authorities were to announce the selection of the winner of this competition during the month of January 2023. Since then, things seem to have taken off in Bogota. Just a few hours after this article was published,…

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What are the export opportunities for the Rafale for 2023?

With 284 aircraft ordered for export since 2015 for 7 countries, the Rafale combat aircraft, long decried including at the highest level of the State, is now considered a huge success for Dassault Aviation, coming to flirt with the export success of the Mirage 2000 and its 286 aircraft exported to 8 countries. If the orders placed over the past two years by Egypt (30 aircraft), Greece (24 aircraft including 12 offset second-hand aircraft), Croatia (12 offset second-hand aircraft), Indonesia (42 aircraft) and above all the United Arab Emirates with 80 aircraft for a record contract of €13,5 billion, ensured the sustainability and activity…

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The Rafale M is preferred by the Indian Navy over the Super Hornet

While Dassault Aviation and Team Rafale experienced two boom years in 2021 and 2022 in terms of exports, with the sale of almost 180 new Rafale aircraft to Greece, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia, several others Negotiations are regularly mentioned as progressing close to a conclusion, with for example Serbia and Iraq. But the greatest export potential for French aircraft in the months and years to come lies with India, with the MMRCA 2 competition for 57 or 114 aircraft for the Indian Air Force, as well as the competition between for almost 2 years the naval version of the device,…

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Has the merger of the Tempest and FX programs convinced Germany to relaunch FCAS?

A few days ago, Dassault Aviation confirmed that negotiations with Airbus DS on the subject of industrial sharing around the SCAF program had indeed been successful, and that the program was now ready to begin phase 1B of the design of the demonstrator. If this announcement was welcomed as it should be by Paris, Berlin and Madrid, it results from an obvious softening of German positions, which suddenly accepted the red lines drawn by Dassault Aviation, particularly in terms of piloting the first pillar, the one that must precisely design the NGF fighter aircraft and its flight controls. At first glance, you might think...

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Should a second fighter program be developed with certain Gulf countries?

After months of tension, the Franco-German defense industrial cooperation programs broke the impasse last week, with two agreements concerning the SCAF program of new generation combat aircraft, and MGCS of heavy armored vehicles of the future. According to published communiqués, it seems that the main sticking points have indeed been resolved, largely due to a softening of German positions in the face of the red lines of French industrialists. As such, a recent interview with Ralf Ketzel, CEO of Krauss Maffei Wegman, provides valuable context regarding the difficulties encountered within the MGCS program due to the arrival…

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