For more than 110 years, the French Air Force has been a military mainstay in Europe. From WWI Biplanes and WWII Fighters to the first jet fighters and today’s models, France has long been at the center of aviation innovation.
If there is one name that has dominated France’s military jet production, it’s Dassault. All of the jets on this list are products of France’s vaunted aeronautic company. The history of the French Air Force postWWII can be seen in the history of Dassault fighter jets.
Dassault was founded as the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch in 1929. Bloch, a French Jew and aviation innovator who survived the Nazis and Buchenwald, changed his name to “Dassault” following the war.
The company’s name changed accordingly to Société des Avions Marcel Dassault, giving us “Dassault.”
Dassault has produced most of France’s fighter jets. A large part of Dassault came to be owned by Aerospatiale in 1998, which later merged with Airbus, another leading European aviation company.
In the postwar years, Dassault became one of Europe’s most prominent producers of fighter jets. It is by far France’s most popular military aviation exporter, selling some of the fighters on this list to countries as different as Belgium, Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan.
The French Air Force is the eighth largest in the world, and with a budget of $40 billion, it’s one of the richest.
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