India s Rafale fighter lost paint as soon as it was bought, how did netizens ridicule it?

Many Indian netizens began to condemn France, believing that the French were unkind. This makes the people of India very unhappy, that is, when you buy a new bike at a bike shop and ride it home and see the paint peeling, you must wonder if it is new, let alone a fighter jet that you spent $200 million on.

India's "Rafale" fighter jet lost its paint as soon as it was bought, and Indian netizens thought that France was very irresponsible, and even sold it to India as a defective product, demanding compensation for India's losses!

Netizens joked that the Indian fighter plane was not painted on the street, and the paint fell off as soon as it was brushed, and the quality was too worrying.

The Rafale fighters, which have not yet been officially delivered to the Indian Air Force, why did they begin to lose their paint? A closer look at the paint on the right side of the tail of the RB003 Rafale fighter will show that there is indeed a large area of paint peeling. Among them, the most obvious paint off is the top of the vertical tail, and the paint area at the junction between the rudder and the vertical tail stabilizer is slightly smaller, however, the paint surface at the root of the vertical tail is also more obvious, and the "Rafale" fighter has not been officially delivered to the Indian Air Force, so the paint is off like this, is it a little too outrageous.

You know, this is a "Rafale" fighter with a unit price of 100 million dollars, which is more expensive than the F-35.

The French "Rafale" fighter jets purchased by the air forces of Qatar and Egypt did not show a similar phenomenon of paint loss before and after delivery, and the "Rafale" fighters, as the active fighters of the French Navy and Air Force, did not lose paint so seriously, which is really rare. The most outrageous thing is that this "Rafale" fighter has been maintained by the ground staff of the Istel air base in France before, and Hindustan Aeronautics and the ground crew of the Indian Air Force have not taken over before, so I really dare not imagine what the "Rafale" will look like if it is maintained by the Indian Air Force.

At present, the paint loss of the "Rafale" fighter jets that have not been delivered has caused widespread concern among Indian taxpayers, and Indian netizens have expressed it as unacceptable. After all, the former chief of staff of the Indian Air Force once said that the "Rafale" is a super fighter comparable to the fifth-generation aircraft, and it is impossible to lose the paint! And the "Rafale" that peeled off the paint made Indian netizens extremely sad, and even some netizens were reluctant to admit that this was the fighter plane bought by the Indian Air Force at a sky-high price, and it seems that this matter has really hit the Indian people a lot.

Even if it is second-hand, it will be repainted before delivery, after all, the color of the fighter jet paint in India and France is not necessarily the same. Paint loss indicates that the aircraft has flown in France for a relatively long time.

It could have been flown by a French pilot, or it could have been flown by an Indian pilot in France. This project has been going on for so many years, and it is not surprising that Indian pilots conducted a more detailed test flight of the Tornae in France. So the problem of paint peeling does not indicate the state of the aircraft, but more about the fact that the whole project dragged on for too long.

The fighter planes sold by France to India are not second-hand, because India wants to quickly deter the enemy, and the fighters will be handed over for use before they are fully built, which also leads to a lot of problems.

The loss of paint on the fighter does not necessarily mean that the fighter is second-hand, and it may be due to the negligence of the staff that the paint is not plated properly.

I think it should be because this is not possible for the new fighter, so it is likely to be second-hand.