[RayChuang88]

There’s a reason why Indian wants the Rafale: possible license production. That way, they could build both the regular Rafale for the Indian Air Force and the Rafale M for the Indian Navy, especially since the Indian Navy plans to have four new aircraft carriers by 2020.

[ravager]

F-16s and F-18s failed the technical evaluation and were found to be quite inferior to Eurofighter and Rafale. Beside the Europeans are ready to offer TOT and other offsets without the need for CISMOA. The US was trying to sell old inferior fighters with too many strings attached. That is where US lost out.