India favours France s Dassault 印度爱上了法国达索 WE VE been waiting for this day for 30 years, said Nicolas Sarkozy, France s president, 我们为这一天已经等待了30年 ,法国总统尼古拉萨科奇说。 on the news this week that India had gone into exclusive negotiations with DassaultAviation, a French firm, to buy 126 of its Rafale warplanes for $15 billion-20 billion. 本周,印度和法国达索航空就印度斥资150~200亿美元购买126架其生产的 阵风 战斗机进入实质性的协商阶段。 France has not sold a single Rafale overseas, and until this week the plane s future lookediffy. 这是法国第一次为 阵风 找到海外买家,并且直到本周 阵风 的将来看起来都是扑朔迷离的。 Shares in Dassault Aviation soared by 18.5%. 达索航空的股票应声大涨了18.5%。 The loser, ironically, was the Rafale s cousin, the Eurofighter Typhoon, built by a consortiumled by EADS, Europe s defence and aerospace champion, which is jointly controlled byGermany and France. 讽刺的是,竞争失败的是 阵风 的堂兄弟欧洲战机公司的 台风 战机, 台风 是由欧洲宇航防务集团领导多家企业联合制造的,该战机由德国和法国联合控制。 |