Rafale Fighters: Saudi Arabia Mulls 'Record' Deal For French Jets As Ties With The US PlummetAlmost two years after the UAE signed a contract for buying 80 Rafales, its closest neighbor and ally in the region, Saudi Arabia, is also mulling to purchase the French aircraft as ties with the United States remain strained. After months of speculations that the Saudi kingdom would relinquish its age-old tradition of using only [โ€ฆ]www.eurasiantimes.com



Saudi Arabia mulls French jet purchase amid strained relations with USSaudi is considering acquiring 100 to 200 Dassault Rafale fighters after US lawmakers proposed freezing arms sales to the kingdom in October because of anger with Riyadh over a cut in oil production.www.scmp.com



A potential first-of-its-kind fighter-jet purchase could be a sign Saudi Arabia isn't happy with what it's getting from the USThe easiest move would be to buy more jets from the US, but recent events may have led Riyadh to have doubts about its longtime patron.www.businessinsider.com




์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””๊ฐ€ ๋ผํŒ” ์ „ํˆฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•จ.


์œ ๋กœํŒŒ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์นด์Šˆ๋„์ง€ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ํ‹€์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›” ๋…์ผ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””์— ์œ ๋กœํŒŒ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์„ ์–ธํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ๊ณต๊ตฐ์˜ ์œ ๋กœํŒŒ์ดํ„ฐ 72๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ œ F-15์— ์ด์–ด ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ธ‰๋œ ๊ธฐ์ข…์ด์–ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋”” ์™•์‹ค ๊ณต๊ตฐ์€ ๊ถ์ง€์— ๋ชฐ๋ ธ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž„.


๋Œ€์•ˆ์ด ์ค‘๊ตญ์ œ J-10์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ–ˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์‚ฌ๋ฉด ์„œ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ์˜ ๋ฃจ๋น„์ฝ˜ ๊ฐ•์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณ ๋ ค์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์˜€์Œ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์„œ๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ๋ฌด๋‚œํ•œ ๋ผํŒ”์„ ๊ณจ๋ž์Œ. ๋„์ž… ๋Œ€์ˆ˜์˜ˆ์ƒ์ด


"100 ~ 200" ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•จ.


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ํ˜„์žฌ ์‚ฌ์šฐ๋””๋Š” F-15, ์œ ๋กœํŒŒ์ดํ„ฐ, ํŒŒ๋‚˜๋น„์•„ ํ† ๋„ค์ด๋„ ์ „ํˆฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ.