Macron says France will order more Rafale warplanes than planned

PHOTO CAPTION: A French Air Force Dassault Rafale flies over Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Eric Burks)

LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - France will buy more Dassault-made Rafale warplanes than planned, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a speech held on a military base in the east of the country.

"We are going to increase and accelerate our orders for Rafales," he said.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten and Michel Rose; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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