"The one hour 25 minute hair-raising sortie in the French Rafale was, quite clearly, the most thrilling experience I have ever had on any fighter jet I have flown, far more thrilling than the gravity-defying 'thrust-vectored' maneuvers I have experienced on the latest generation of Russian fighters such as the Sukhoi-30 or MiG-35," says NDTV's Vishnu Som about his experience of flying the French fighter aircraft.