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The forthcoming Rafale F4 is slated to replace France’s fourth-generation Mirage 2000. Here's What You Need to Know: The Dassault Rafale simply can't compete against the F-35. In January 2019, French Defense Minister Florence Parly announced France would commit $2.3 billion to develop an F4 generation of the Dassault Rafale twin-engine multirole fighter.  This would include production in 2022–2024 of the last twenty-eight of the original order of 180 Rafales, followed by the purchase of an additional thirty Rafales F4.2s between 2027–2030, for a total of 210.  Since 2008, France has ...

How stealthy is it? Here's What You Need to Remember: As France must wait nearly two decades before a European stealth fighter can enter service, its armed forces are betting that in the interim adding networked sensors and weapons to the Rafale’s superior kinematic performance and powerful electronic warfare systems will keep the agile jet relevant in an era of proliferating stealth aircraft and long-range surface-to-air missiles. In January 2019, French Defense Minister Florence Parly announced France would commit $2.3 billion to develop an F4 generation of the Dassault Rafale twin-engin...

Paris particularly prizes maintaining an independent domestic arms industry and has never seriously considered purchasing F-35s.

I recently bought an electric bicycle, which is a bike with a motorized pedal-assist. Because Paris is only five and a half miles wide, a distance easily covered by any adult of moderate fitness, an e-bike seemed like an ideal transportation solution. Commuting in town since then, I have realized that Paris’ infrastructure is unsuitable for bicycle commuting. Sites of major Paris employers are inaccessible to bicycle traffic. 19th Street SW has no shoulder, so access to Turner Industries and Kimberly-Clark is prohibitively hazardous to cyclists. 19th Street NW likewise has no shoulder, b...