What you can probably see is that you made statements that were shown to be false..........that was your choice.
You then tried to say you had meant something you HADN'T said.........that was your choice not to be clear.
You then complained about aircraft from 70 years ago not being relevant, and followed that by mentioning a French aircraft from 1949!!!!
Sadly for you, I have studied aviation for the last 40 years, and your successive claims were just wrong. Perhaps aviation isn't your strong area?
You even tried to treat others as fools by changing my point about Rafale airframe sales V Eurofighter sales into a reply about export customers, and even that silly trick didn't come out well as your figures were wrong.
To summarise the bleeding obvious, as an example: If you think that the number of air to air kills for the Mirage 3 is radically better than the 306 for the F4 Phantom I’d suggest you have a numeracy problem.
The massive elephant in the room here, and elsewhere is COST.
As a quick exemplar: You will know that for any country wanting a 24/7/365 aircraft carrier for use as a weapon it needs at least two carriers.
Lots of countries have built carriers. France knows how to build carriers. France knows it needs at least two for constant use.........
How many does it have?
Picking and chosing sentences and rearranging them to suit your purpose is not making a point, it is creating confusion.
If I listed 6 generations of aircraft, it was in answer to an assertion that France had no reason to claim it was in a better situation to produce a modern combat aircraft compared to Germany.
France has produced the Mirage IIIC, which has way over 306 air to air kills and as such is the most succesful Mach 2 fighter ever.
Unlike you who throws figures in without any reference, every single Mirage III C or Nesher kill is documented in the listing below.
Israel Air Force Record in Battle
With additional info here:
You will note, reinforcing my assertion that France has every reason to believe it has more expertise in modern fighter design than Germany, that French jets were already racking air to air victories long before the Mirage III was produced.
If I just look at this source again, you will find another 25 air to air kills by Ouragan, Mystère IV, Super Mystère B2 or Vautour.
In other locations, in different times, you can also add Mirage F-1 air to air kill in Iraq, Angola, Peru as witnesses to French seniority over Germany in the field of fighter design.
I made one factual error regarding EF2000 exports because Austria uses its Tranche 1 so little it had escaped my mind.
lt’s certain there will be more Rafale customers or orders, over 300 are already built or ordered so you assertion of Rafale not neing an export success is blatantly false .
There are currently the same number of Rafale and Gripen on order or produced yet no-one ever writes Gripen is a commercial failure.
France has ordered a small batch of 2 C-130J and 2 KC-130J to compensate for the delay of the Atlas and the development time of the RW AAR capability.
l have written earlier that for niche capability, France buys from the US (AWACS, Hawkeye, MQ-9). These purchases make economical sense, who is going to develop a carrier-borne AWACS when only 3 are needed ?