Oh you know, we're modest, the domestic market for weapons in the US is 10 times larger than the French market, because the US has 6 times the population of France and if you multiply by 6 the production budget of a small series of equipment, you can produce 10 times more because of scale effects.
So our objectives are the following:
- To have a development cost that is half that of the Americans for an equivalent product thanks to design to cost and a much better controlled process.
- To export the equivalent of the production for France in order to reduce the market size disadvantage.
For the Rafale these two objectives now seem easy to achieve and therefore it will be a success.
- We have produced 152 Rafales for France and we will probably produce 225.
- We have export orders for 156 Rafales with enough prospects to exceed the 225 Rafales for export.