Lets assume a situatiom france ha a threat, Since its not the chase or being chased, does the Rafale use its radar or not? Apparently since this is supposed to be defensive stance as you say, it wont use its Radar. And if the enemy is not using its radar, it just goes through the screen of Rafales, so how does it become effective?
If an enemy has to attack france, it knows which areas / positions to hit, but then the defensive force does not know all the positions that are being hit as they do not really know accurately the objective of the attacking forces.
After 2 years will be 100 meteors that as you said France is buying for another customer. So now you are going to threaten with missiles that belong to someone else? Rented missiles?
French never fought in Vietnam? Now you really dont know abt French history or you either fell on your head (you surely not case for Zika) Let me educate you something
Post WW2, France wanted to enforce control over what it was then called French Indo China , this is what we now call Vietnam. Most of people in vietnam spoke Vietnamese and French The geography taught was about French geopgraphy.. Which country would use other countryls language which is few thousand miles away as a need?
Anyway, to fight the french oppressors (yes the french were the oppressors) and to kick them out of the country, there was one teacher who took the lead, his name Ho Chi Minh. He because the idol for struggle against France.. for this matter you can read Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina
Also read this part in particular (the entire page is interesting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First...efense_Assistance_Act_.281950.E2.80.931954.29
War in Vietnam which was againt the Vietnamese who wanted Freedom from the French who just a few years ago were champiioning the cause of Freedom and calling on the world for "LIBERTIE" so when the Germans overran Frane they are talking of liberty for the world, but after the war they do the exact same thing what a few years back they asked the world to fight against.
So it was actually France vs people of vietnam who wanted Freedom and ultimately since French were weak (and how many times in history do we see that?) and then again due to
Mutual Defense Assistance Act (1950–1954) the Americans try to bail out France.
Also, read about Battle of Dien Bien Phu, what the hell were about 20000 french soldiers doing in Vietnam? Vacation??
The French and Americans were badly beaten at Dien Bien Phu,, some of the best French troops Foreing legion were the ones defeated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu try reading it.
As usual in France you are only taught about the rosy things, if you know the bad part of france did, then maybe some might really jusfify what France is getting now.