Dassault announces it has delivered its 300th Rafale fighter

Dassault Aviation has delivered its 300^th Rafale fighter, reporting on 7 October 2025 that the milestone delivery had been completed “a few days ago”.

Dassault noted that, under the oversight of France’s Direction générale de l’Armement (DGA) defence procurement agency and its own engineering management, the Rafale programme supports 400 French companies and “is a cornerstone of France’s industrial and military sovereignty thanks to the critical technologies it has developed and the export successes it has achieved”.

Dassault noted that, to date, it has received 533 Rafale firm orders from France and eight export customer countries, which are Egypt, India, Qatar, Greece, Croatia, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Serbia. Of these orders, 233 aircraft are yet to be delivered, with Dassault planning to increase its production rate for the aircraft to four aircraft per month.

The first Rafale units became operational with the French Navy in 2004 and with the French Air Force in 2006. Export deliveries began in 2015, with the first of these going to Egypt.