Of course. If this would not be the case, it would mean that France would get out of any possibility of multinational operations with its NATO allies, which is not the case. The Rafale is fully interoperable with its allies. It will stay that way, and it will have the capability—and it has the capability now—to be fully integrated in a C4I environment with the allied systems like Link 16, with Crypto Radio. It has the capability to be included in a network-centric warfare. And like many aircraft of the future, it includes multi-sensor data fusion that will process the data.
On November 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.