File photo - File picture taken in 2010 of Dassault's jet-fighter Rafale assembly plant in Merignac, south of France. During an interview on LCP TV on December 7, 2011, French defense Minister Gerard Longuet stated that the Rafale production will be stop if the Plane is not exported after the French forces have received all their airframes. The claim was immediatly spread out of context in many French and international media giving the impression that the production was about to be stop which is not the case as it is expected to run at least until 2018, as reminded by Longuet. - Egypt will order 30 additional Rafale fighter jets from France. A big customer of the French arms industry, Cairo was the first foreign country to buy Rafale (24), in 2015. - Photo by Patrick Bernard/ABACAPRESS.COM