Fuentes oficiales brasileñas han argumentado la preferencia de Brasil por el Rafale sobre el Gripen y el Superhornet, como su futuro caza debido a "principios económicos" .
El presidente Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ha declarado su preferencia por el Rafale y reprendido a la Fuerza Aérea por preferir al mas barato y fácil de mantener Gripen.
El Rafale nunca ha sido vendido al exterior, pero tras los comentarios de Lula parece que se ha colocado en cabeza en la competición para dotar de 36 cazas a Brasil. El 5 de Abril se anunció que la decisión se aplazaría hasta mediados de Mayo.
La principal razón esgrimida para elegir el Rafale, según el presidente y su ministro de defensa es la transferencia tecnológica que se recibiría.
Además la decisión vendría reforzada por el pacto estratégico entre Francia y Brasil que han firmado un pacto por 12.000 millones de dólares para la venta a Brasil de 50 helicópteros y cinco submarinos.
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Brazilian prosecutors have agreed to open an inquiry into a multi-billion-dollar tender pitting France, the United States and Sweden to supply the Latin American nation with modern fighter jets. A prosecution source told AFP on April 7 that prosecutor Jose Alfredo de Paulo Silva approved the request from a Brazilian individual who argued the preference for France's Rafale was against "economic principles."
The finalists now battling it out in the final stages of the tender are France's Rafale made by Dassault, Sweden's Gripen NG by Saab, and the F/A-18 Super Hornet manufactured by Boeing.
But President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's stated preference for the ultra-sophisticated, semi-stealth Rafale jet has angered the air force, which preferred the much cheaper and easier-to-maintain Gripen.
The Rafale has never been sold abroad, but after Lula's comments is now seen as the front-runner to clinch the contract to supply some 36 fighter jets to the South American nation.
On April 5, officials said Lula had now put off any announcement on the winner of the bid, which had been due after Easter, until mid-May.
Throughout the competition, Lula and Defense Minister Nelson Jobim have underscored technology transfer as their top priority so that Brazil could not only build its own next-generation fighters but also export them.
France's jet bid was bolstered by the fact that Brazil has a strategic pact with Paris that has already seen it sign a $12-billion deal in early 2009 to buy 50 helicopters and five submarines from France.
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