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By most accounts,this is not a particularly good platform, yet France is selling them like hotcakes.

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Bill I think part of it is because the French are not too picky about what countries they arms sell to.


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Kind if like Airbuses. Cheap sells.



 
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Kind if like Airbuses. Cheap sells.


Less strings attached than buying American ?

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France will sell to any dirt bag despot in the world. The only requirement to buy a French fighter as far as I can tell is hard cold cash.



 
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