This analysis is based on a detailed independent military study titled Operation Sindoor: The India–Pakistan Air War (7–10 May 2025), authored by Adrien Fontanellaz and published as an exploratory note by the Centre for Historical and Political-Military Studies. The report reconstructs the
India’s Rafale deal is usually reduced to familiar talking points. How many aircraft, how much money, and whether the jet is better than its rivals. That framing misses the real strategic value of the agreement. The most important outcome of the Rafale deal is not the fighter itself, but the decision to build a production […]















