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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Emirates throw wrench in Dassault works

SLAM-ERFrance's Dassault Aviation, desperate to find the first foreign customer for its multi-role Rafale fighter, is concentrating on a potential sale of 60 of the jets to the United Arab Emirates.

But Abu Dhabi has thrown a wrench in the works by demanding that the Rafales be armed with Boeing's SLAM ER/2 missile instead of the European-made MBDA AM-39 they are fitted to carry.

The SLAM -- stand-off land-attack missile -- is a spin-off from the radar-guided air-launched Harpoon anti-ship missile. It's a high-precision guided munition for surgical strike capability against fixed land targets and ships in port or at sea.

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