Vayu Aerospace and Defence

Dassault in 2020

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“As guided, we delivered 13 Rafale Export and continued to explore new export opportunit­ies. This led to the successful sale to Greece in January 2021 of 18 Rafale (6 new aircraft and 12 aircraft recently put into service with the French Air and Space Force). Following the sale, France announced the order of a further 12 Rafales to replace those to be delivered to Greece. We also successful­ly delivered 34 Falcons (despite the travel restrictio­ns), continued working on the Falcon 6X which completed its virtual rollout in December 2020 and that is expected to enter into service in late 2022 and continued to develop the future Falcon to be announced in the

The 2020 order intake amounted to EUR 3,463 million, versus EUR 5,693 million in 2019. This year, it included the integrated support contract for the maritime surveillan­ce aircraft programme for the French Navy. In 2019, it amounted to EUR 5,489 million, versus EUR 7,341 million in 2019. This reduction, as planned, was mainly due to a lower number of Rafale Export deliveries (13 vs. 26 in 2019) and Falcon deliveries (34 vs. 40 in 2019).

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