You're right, my being French definitely influenced me in talking about the Rafale, the Eurofighter is more to the point in this case. I do absolutely agree th

You're right, my being French definitely influenced me in talking about the Rafale, the Eurofighter is more to the point in this case. I do absolutely agree that there's no good reason why the EU at large shouldn't be able to produce a modern, top of the line fighter jet. We have the engineers, the means of production, a market to sell said jets, some European countries are already amongst the biggest arms dealers in the world, it doesn't make sense to me that countries of the EU would buy American jet fighters (with all due respect to the USA).