“European friends, you have a call.”

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by Wonderful-Excuse4922

43 comments
  1. I wish they didn’t need to exist at all, but damn is that plane a beauty

  2. We saw it in india pakistan its a bad jet go buy Eurofighter instead

  3. Damn I love France’s military.

    Btw I do hope one day we’ll have a united European military which is on the same level of the American’s one.

  4. looking at the sky of Kyiv.
    cant see a single one…

  5. All of this circle jerking for war machines to kill people that costs hundreds of millions. At the same time when people are struggling to buy groceries, disgusting

  6. Sponsoring the rafale after bombing the 6th gen?

  7. Unfortunately Chinese missiles answered the call over Kashmir.

  8. I’m not sure being beholden entirely to the french is that much better than being entirely beholden to the US. Plus Rafale just doesn’t meet the same sort of mission requirements that are fulfilled by something like the F-35. And the French and Germans have been expertly torpedoeing any joint EU fighter project from within too so…. I don’t see things improving any time soon

  9. I had a German military plane fly at low altitude overhead today, and I said to my family “these are our friends”

  10. macron is so fucking funny sometimes like this cannot be the official post of one of the most influential european (and world) leaders

  11. Emmanuel, tell that insufferable Dassault boss to zip it, otherwise there won’t be FCAS.

    You’d think this project to be too important to be derailed by an “eccentric” CEO (yet again!), but here we are.

    Airbus Germany is already looking for alternatives for the unmanned fighter jet project, which IMHO is the the most important aspect of FCAS anyway. Airbus has the lead on the unmanned aircraft, while Dassault has the lead on the manned fighter jet.

    But now there are rumours that [Airbus Germany is going to cooperate with Saab (Sweden)](https://www.hartpunkt.de/bauen-schweden-und-deutschland-gemeinsam-ein-unbemanntes-kampfflugzeug/) to build an unmanned aircraft, independent of FCAS, as both countries need those type of unmanned aircraft ASAP to integrate them in their air-forces, to complement the Eurofighters and Gripen fleets.

    Even if you have a finished product, you need years of training, need to find ways to coordinate attacks with unmanned drones – all of that takes a lot of time and time is running out.

    Plus, today the [Eurofighter producing nations announced that they are going to increase production numbers](https://www.hartpunkt.de/eurofighter-nationen-wollen-die-produktion-hochfahren/) from 14 to 20 jets a year and even 30 in the longer term. So it’s not just Dassault that Europeans can call, monsieur.

  12. If you are selling 4th Gen+ Rafale at a discount we’ll buy. But for now, as much as it pains me, we are buying F35s because there is no credible 5th gen alternative in Europe. Looking forward to the Anglo-Italo-Japanese Gen 6 though, if only they would compromise for something quicker than 2040 when we will already be occupied by Putin at the current pace of European rearmament. 🤷‍♂️

  13. The world is moving toward sixth-generation fighters, and Macron is selling old jets. Is he training to be a used car salesman when his term ends?

  14. Wasn’t this the plane that got knocked out of the sky in Pakistan by a chinese j-10 fighter?

  15. Did you know that according to statista France is the second biggest arms exporter from 2020 to 2024?

  16. The Rafal is beautiful but India losing one or maybe two isn’t inspiring

  17. Says the guy who openly supports dictators and murderers in Serbian goverment

  18. I’m not the most well versed in fighter jets, but is that not somewhat outdated as a model? I mean I’m sure it’s fine but not sure why it’s coming up now, if anyone could enlighten me?

  19. It’s ok if we don’t copy any of the shit Trump do, like really. This is cringe, the whole french gov online communication is cringe. First the awful “ia pov short”, now this. No one wants that.

  20. Macron was at the Bourget airshow today (source: I saw him). Not suprised he posted this.

  21. As much as I love my country, I’m afraid million euros planes in a drone war, and human pilotes in front of AI swarms, feel like a replay of when we sent horses against german tanks.

  22. European friends please buy a plan being downed by a third world country vs a plane which took over an air space above a prepared adversary.

  23. Bruh, you can’t even work with Germany. Meanwhile the UK, Italy and Japan just chilling making 6th gen

  24. It’s funny seeing foreign leaders taking after Trump with their Social Media postings.

    Everyone used to be super professional and serious but now they all post memes and shit.

  25. Rafales are 25 years old in design, but haven’t stopped evolving. Rafales were as great a the TGV when they first appeared, a tech few others followed.

    it’s still the best multirole fighter available for it’s staggering cost.

    It beats the F35 in training dogfights, in simulations and in real training, 90% of the time. — F-35 is 4 times heavier in air to air combat.

    Even the copy cat Chinese planes are better. 🙂

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