It’s a geopolitically neutral aircraft. There are really only a few options to buy fighter jets, mainly the US, or Russia (I know there are others, but those are the two main players in the industry) the Rafale is a very capable aircraft, sure there are more stealthy and more capable aircraft, but it is a good way to remain out of the way of the USA V Russia air war while still having a good jet. Also with buying jets from France there are way less strings attached, than other countries would have.

Rafale cost 74M€ for the biplace version, 68,8M€ for the monoplace version and 79M€ for the Marine version. For gode sake check your sources before saying false information !

The document is interesting but the prices concerning the Rafale and the F 35 are absolutely wrong... The Rafale, despite a number produced much lower than its American competitor, has an average price (average of the three versions B, C, or M) of 74 million euros, or 81 million dollars. Several serious sources give these figures. The F35 was since the beginning more expensive than the Rafale, but soon, thanks to its mass production, it should fall at a price equivalent to the Dassault model.

Rafale is simply the best aircratf ever......it is a jewel like few others in the history of aviation, and I would like to remind you that your figures are wrong, the Rafale is much cheaper than its competitors, you should make sure that your figures are correct. And what's more, France does not practice economic blackmail like the Americans do...if we do not agree with them on political or economic issues we no longer receive any spare parts, this is not the case with France, the French respect their contracts whatever happens.

The stabilizers had me at “Hello”! Landing on the Aircraft Carrier was beautiful.

Best jet in the world.

I question your purchase cost assertion - it’s much more like 115 million per unit for export. Croatia bought 12 for $960 million, unit cost of $80 million. Not as cheap as an F16, way cheaper than a Lightning 2. Much lower sortie costs as well.

euuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh where do you get this price of more than $230 million???? The Rafale C costs 68 million euros, about the same in US dollars! and the Eurofighter costs twice its price! This comment is absurd! unless you have divided the purchase price of a country by the number of planes, but it doesn't work like that, in a sale price, there is the training of pilots, mechanics, integration as for example in India, this country asked Dassault to integrate Indian weapons!! the Dassault warranty, and very often spare parts, and often weapons such as the MICA IR or EM, which is perfectly integrated into the Rafale, the MICA serving as an advanced sensor by sending information about what is in front of the MICA !! in this case, why minimize the price of the F35, since 1996, LM has built around 1000 F35s for a total cost of $1600 billion, if we divide this sum by the number of aircraft, because research and development is not are not making a loss, the manufacturer recovers these billions by integrating them into the selling price, and if we divide 1,600,000,000,000 / 1000 F35 = each F35 will have cost $1.6 billion!! if LM manufactures 2000, that will still be 800 million per F35, 4000 = 400 million per F35 etc, etc. ..............for 8000 F35, that will be $200 million per F35, but provided that 7000 F35 does not cost one $, let's admit 7000 x 100 million $ per F35 = 700,000,000,000 $ + 1,600,000,000,000 = 2,300,000,000,000 $ for 8000 F35 if the USA sells at a loss, it’s to crush the competition!! but hey, an F35 is a pile of scrap metal and the SU35 or SU 57 are no better because they are obsolete!! you have to compare what is comparable, the Rafale is a Formula 1, the F35 is a flying cauldron whose only advantage is its stealth, the worst, it only works against high frequency radars, but there are many other radars that don't care about the passive stealth of the F35!!

Best multirole fighter jet with few geopolitical problem.

france engineering best in the world😮

Because it's simply put the technologically best multirole 4th ++ generation fighter on the market. It's literally better then all other 4th generation jet fighters.

The Rafale is not 2x the price of an F35 that's an oversight on your part. The problem is that many fighter contracts contain all the additional parts, equipment and weapons which can easily multiply overall cost to 2 or 2.5 times. The shown cost of an F35 also does not take into account that the F35 needs its own completely integrate fighter support complex which adds to the cost over other designs. Also the fighter is very logistically expensive as it has complex components and stealth material which needs extensive maintenance. The Rafale is roughly the same price for a single airframe at 100 to 120 million (usually 115) USD per aircraft but concurrent cost is lower and availability of the airframe is higher so you need fewer planes to retain the same level of readiness.

You forgot to mention that the cost per hour of flight is very competitive for the rafale. Much cheaper than the F35 for instance

"War! This is too serious a matter to entrust to the military. » Georges CLEMENCEAU (1841-1929)

I dont know much but I know your price guide is way out.

France Engineers are some of the best in the world ❤.

rafale is not multirol but omnirol, and it is cheaper than the two other fighters

The Rafale had shown to win every single Export Trials in was used in, most country that chose anything else were either not looking for something that big or expensive (Brazil chose the Gripen), and other countrys chose the F35 either because they already own american amrement so it facilitated the change in aircraft, or they were pushed by the US mostly threw the reason of the Nuclear program of the F35.

Rafale, Rafail, Rafalley...By God man, just pick one!

Could it be Rafale comes with extras like ; 1. It's ITAR FREE ( and you can't buy F35 ). 2. France give you a loan 3. Eurofighter has a flip flop partner in Germany who would veto you for not having a vegan breakfast. 4. France is a loyal supplier. Or hopefully Rafale is simply a good fit?

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Rafale combat proven , F 35 breackdown proven...Simple , basic !

What do you say everyone,what the hell!!!

One of the most successful plane in the world and no one bought it in Europe unlike Croatia and Greece. European Union talk about defence, this is a joke! Time for France to leave that shit

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They are not buying it for political reasons but because Rafale, is THE best of the best,in it's category!!!!! You also did a huge mistake (maybe on purpose?) on how these cost....

Why is there a Malaysian flag? Malaysia not buying Rafale 😂

This video is plain nonsense with poorly pronounced naration

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My Fiat car aged 20 is 0.0002 million of american dollars ! One plane = 500 000 fiat panda aged 20 old !

Rafal is to much expesive.Serbia order 12 new Rafal 4.1 ,for 3.2 bilions...

236 million dollars for a non stealth fighter. 😂

Like French cars are a guarantee for rust? 😊

Na it’s a stupid decision. Still inferior to F-35 for the same price segment

Ra-fail 😂

French say oui oui

serbia? hahahahah

The price is completely wrong. Rafale are around 90m$. Peoples like to take the price of the deal and divide it by the number of Rafale purchased but what they don't take into consideration is that Dassault also include lot of spared parts in thoose deals so that the customer can achieve the 90% combat readiness proper to the Rafale. And it also include all the facilities to store the airplane and to maintain them, and also the formations for the pilots and technicians and various operators. ANd it's not impossible that it include some technological transfer and some weaponery aswell.