Aircraft
Dassault Boss Reviews Rafale’s Great Year
India expected to sign soon for 36, may still agree 90 more for in-country production.

It’s been quite a year for Dassault Aviation, with major milestones for the Falcon business jet line, breakthrough export orders for the Rafale combat aircraft from Egypt and Qatar and the 100th flight of the stealthy Neuron UCAS demonstrator. So there was an air of quiet satisfaction about Eric Trappier’s pre-show media briefing on Friday.