YEMEN Press Agency

UAE signs deal with France to buy 80 Rafale aircraft

ABU DHABI, Dec. 03 (YPA) – The UAE has signed an agreement to purchase 80 Rafale aircraft produced by the French company Dassault Aviation.

France indicated that the value of the Rafale fighter jet and helicopter deal with the UAE is approximately 17 billion Euros.

The French presidency considered, in a press statement, that the deal is “a great achievement” for the strategic partnership between the two countries.

The aircraft will be delivered starting in 2027 according to the “F4” program, which is a project under development worth about two billion Euros. It is scheduled to be launched in 2024, and Paris presents it as a “technological, industrial and strategic leap.”

AFP says that the Rafale deal, which the UAE signed a contract to purchase, will replace the 60 “Mirage 2000 aircraft that the Gulf state acquired at the end of the 1990s.

 

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