For the past 15 years, DASSAULT AVIATION and its partners SNECMA (Safran Group)
and THALES, brought together within the RAFALE International Consortium, have
been working in Brazil to promote the MIRAGE 2000 for the FX Call for Tender,
then the RAFALE for FX2. They were driven by a determination to cooperate over
the long term with the Brazilian industry, especially with EMBRAER. Unbridled
technology transfers and scientific, technical and industrial partnerships
demanded by Brazil featured among the powerful arguments in favor of the RAFALE
International Consortium proposal, which enjoyed the full backing of the French
authorities.
We regret that the choice has gone in favor of the GRIPEN, an aircraft provided
with many items of equipment of third party origin, especially U.S., and that
does not belong to the same category as the RAFALE. The GRIPEN is a lighter,
single engine aircraft that does not match the RAFALE in terms of performance
and therefore does not carry the same price tag. This financial rationale fails
to take into account either the RAFALE's cost-effectiveness or the level of
technology offered.
RAFALE INTERNATIONAL
Nathalie BAKHOS
Communication Export
DASSAULT AVIATION
Tel. + 33 1 47 11 65 11
e.mail: nathalie.bakhos@dassault-aviation.fr
Dassault Aviation: FX2 contest:
http://hugin.info/143388/R/1751056/590202.pdf
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