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1) If it is a secret, why do you say it's 30% ?1. 15% is the norm? How much Dassault extracted from the hapless Qatar for 24 Rafales? It is a well-kept secret. Qatar had to borrow money from a Japanese consortium of banks to pay the advance. In case of India also, this has been kept secret. Not only that, other key conditionalities of the deal like projects under offset have not been made public. I learnt separate agreements with Safran, Thales, Snecma, Sagem etc. have not been signed.
2. French govt did not give sovereign or bank guarantee in behalf of Dassault, if the company wilfully defaults.
3. Everything has a beginning. If the company did not fleece it's customer in the past, that doesn't mean it will not do so in future. Even a thief by profession has a beginning in his career.
2) No need of a bank garantee because it's not a deal between Dassault and India, but between France aand India. Be sure your Defense minister asked a garantee if it was usefull (he bargained until so many months, he could wait another more weeks to have it.... but it was useless)
3) Don't be paranoid ! India was, is and will be a big customer for Dassault. And remember : it's a Government to Government agreement.