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Let’s Get a Few Things Straight, Says Eurofighter
Eurofighter GmbH boss Ays Rauen has taken a swipe out at a cheeky little advertisement from Dassault that accuses the Rafale’s competitors of being “almost on budget, almost on schedule and almost ready to fly a full range of effective missions.”
“We are the number-one best-selling next-generation combat aircraft on the market,” he says. “That’s worth repeating — we are the number-one. Now that might be news to some people, but it shouldn’t be. We have a signed contract for 620 aircraft, plus options, and we have sold 18 to Austria. And I read that we are ‘almost,’ ‘almost,’ ‘almost.’ Well, we have 46 aircraft in operational service today with four air forces. And if you go and talk to the pilots who are flying those aircraft, talk to their air forces, very quickly you’ll get the message about how well Eurofighter is performing from those who operate our aircraft in service.”
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