Well France is using the SCALP missile because they are near the mid life retrofit of the SCALP (and this new will upgrade cost a lot of euros) and they have a lot (450 in stock). They fire some just to avoid paying for the retrofit. Did you check the AA misisle on the Rafale, just one MICA IR, usually in this kind of…

No it was specially design for low drag. Dassault want it near the nose of the aircraft (it’s better for the pilot during refuelling) and in the nose there is the radar, the irst, the ecm antenna, .... so no space for a retractable one (and if the mobile one didn’t deploy you have to abort the mission). Dassault keep…