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 "title": "Dassault's Trappier Floats a Super-Rafale Fallback and Confirms an Airbus Eurodrone Rupture in Senate Testimony",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/dassault-trappier-super-rafale-scaf-collapse-eurodrone-senate/",
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 "published": "2026-07-01T13:51:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:54:44.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParis, 1 July 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * In his first Senate testimony since the Franco-German-Spanish SCAF fighter collapsed, Dassault chief executive Éric Trappier told the defence committee on 1 July 2026 that his firm could build the next fighter without Germany or Spain\n * Trappier said Dassault has the technical competence but not the means to fund a clean-sheet fighter alone, leaving the door open to an extra-European partner under French leadership, and floated a “Super-Rafale” ",
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