Qatar, Kuwait & UAE to follow India's lead over purchase of Rafale

Qatar, Kuwait & UAE are interested in buying French Rafale fighter jets but are waiting to see whether India will make a purchase first, France's defence minister said yesterday. "They are in effect interested but they won't know for sure until the first one jumps in," said the minister, Gerard Longuet. He said he hoped that the UAE, which is talks with France to buy 60 Rafales, would make a decision "within a time frame that will allow its two neighbours, which hope to be interoperable with the Emirates, to …