Pierre-Henri Baras wrote :

Grounded? The Rafale?? Errr, you're confusing the Rafale with the
Eurofighter. The Rafale never crashed, and wasn't grounded unlike
the Eurofighter.
As for ACM, the Rafale M flew against the Carl Vinson air wing
last year: humiliated the F-14 (I'm sorry to say this as I love
the Turkey) and rapidly disposed of the F-18 that put up a better
fight than the F-14, but eventually gave in.

I don't try anymore to find any logic or truth in Al's posts ...