Ananda
The Bunker Group
Dasault claim they have tech capabilities to lead partnership, thus the next partnetship must be lead by Dasault. This confirmed France want any potential partner follow Dasault lead as Junior Partner. Sweeden SAAB and UAE being consider both on tech (former) and financial (later) partners.
Basically it will developed Rafale 2.0 in my opinion. 5.5 (or 6.0) gen Rafale. 4.5 move to 5.5