If 126 rafales are ordered the price will decrease accordingly. But the fact is that people make as if the NG will cost the same as previous generation Gripens, and it’s very likely to cost more.

Nic

Sweden magical aerospace industry : the more complex the plane, the less expensive it is.

If they had developed an F-22, it would have cost the price of a piper club :p

The same could be said for the Super Hornet. Which, is also available in a Highly Capable Electronic Warfare Model. (i.e. Growler) Plus, did I add that its cheaper than both the Rafale and Typhoon. (and share the same engine with the LCA MK2);)

Is the EA-18G cleared for export ?

The current max. of MICAs is in fact 6, as the current max of AAMs on the Typhoon is in fact 8.

Let’s be accurate :

current Rafale max : 6 BVR missiles (which can also be used as CAC missiles)
current typhoon max : 4 BVR missiles + 4 CAC missiles

Which solution is better ? well difficult to say.

sorry, but i’m don’t understand. St Dizier is like 2200km away from Bamghazi. Why are Rafales flying all the way from there to patrol the sky? They have ablut 3000km range. Right? Even with in air refueling, its a grueling flight.

Why not just use carriers?

Because they were based at St Dizier and it was urgent to stop Gaddafi strikes on Benghazi. No time to deploy the weapons and logistic stuff elsewhere

The first Rafale reached Benghazi in about 2 hours

Now they have returned to Corsica apparently.

The CdG will leave France tomorrow morning and it will take 48 h to reach Libya

ppp,
there is a difference between people who are just uninformed and people who obviously try to disrupt ongoing discussions to suit their own agenda. Those people like to provoke and charge up the more attention they get from regular members. Ignoring them is the best way to deal with them. If no one spent attention those people will sooner or later leave, but they won’t if you feed them over and over again. I’ve learned it myself from previous events. Let the pony be the pony and just ignore it (him) and everyone else with a rightful mind should do the same.

As always, you’re right.

ppp is first on my ignore list.

There are not many”A2G Typhoon pictures”.

Or maybe, the RAF, the AMI and the Luftwaffe had capable AG platforms unlike Adla who untill very recently was forced to use the 2000D in theatre?
Lets put it bluntly, untill very recently the RAFALE deployment to A´stan had a lot more to do with sales propaganda than any meaningfull combat capability. Sending an aircraft who had zero capability to designate a target to do medium level CAS was simply absurd in military terms.

Not when there are dozen of TAC-P on the ground and dozen of french LDP (PDL-CT, ATLIS, Damocles) in the air to designate all the target you need.

Not when you can use all weater GPS bombs (ground gps coordinates can be uploaded thanks to the radar or the OSF)

BTW, the mirage F1 deployed to Afghanistan don’t have a self laser designation capability neither… and off course they were useless and only there for sales propaganda :rolleyes:

Not to mention the king of CAS, the A-10, which didn’t have any LDP to play with in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2005…
It was there for sale propaganda too I presume.

Tnot to mention that it equals the typical RAFALE (or USAF Viper) load for the same mission.

Yes, but with half the range though.

So much A2G Typhoon pictures for so few real A2G combats…

Why ?
Too complex and too expensive to operate in raw conditions (Even worst than the tornado which was already the hangar queen of his time!)