Brazil may or may not award a fighter contract next year, but, if it does, the Dassault Rafale would win. That is basically what the French press is reporting that Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, privately told Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, on the sidelines of the United Nations meetings in New York on 22 September.
Of course, we recall that Rousseff's predecessor, Lula da Silva, once made similar assurances to Sarkozy, but was forced to backtrack after his minister of defence threatened to quit.
The French reports do nothing to assure the Rafale's long-suffering competitors in the F-X2 competition -- Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Saab Gripen.
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