Nearly All F-15Es Photographed Arriving In Middle East Carried Dragon’s Eye Radar Pods:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28924/nearly-all-f-15es-photographed-arriving-in-middle-east-carried-dragons-eye-radar-pods

The pod is self-contained and carries a stabilized AESA radar that rotates around the pod’s center axis as well as geo-positioning and cooling systems. As such, it can work as a side-looking airborne radar (SLAR), taking high detailed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) maps of an area the Strike Eagle flies parallel too or even over, with near photo-like fidelity. In fact, it is supposedly so sensitive that it can detect roadside and semi-buried IEDs and possibly even groups of people on foot. It is also rumored to be able to generate ground-moving target indicator (GMTI) geolocation data on vehicles, such as trucks and armor, or vessels at sea.

Luftwaffe deploys A400M tanker for first time (in Jordan):

You should get a shrink presto amigo to adore my rear end with such fury. Leave that hatreds rhetoric at home, will you or leave this forum where ppl abide to have gentle conversation respectuous of their opinion.

50% availability is by the way more that some years published number by the French parliament. But let me guess there are no more French valuable like you there…

RAF Nato row after ‘totally unacceptable’ engine problems keep £2.6bn [A400M] fleet on the ground

[…]MoD’s Minister for Procurement, said that after an “extremely robust meeting” the problems with the A400M aircraft should be fixed by next year.

Concerns have been raised over the new aircraft since its inception in 2003. A recent Defence Select Committee was told that engineering staff at RAF Brize Norton called the aircraft “a dog” and that on occasion only two out of the fleet of 20 aircraft were serviceable.

In 2015 one A400M aircraft crashed in Spain during a test flight, killing four crew members. A software fault, since rectified, was found to be the cause of the crash.
[…]
n Parliament this week Mark Francois, a former Defence Minister, said: “We have paid £2.6 billion for an aircraft with appalling reliability, bad engines, a virtually broken gearbox, problem propellers, massive vibration problems and an inability to deliver paratroops.”

The former Minister of Defence asked what could be done about the “emerging procurement disaster”.

Mr Andrew replied: “The performance has been totally unacceptable. We are now expecting EuroProp International, the engine manufacturer, to be more empowered to negotiate the support solutions that we need.

Source:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ as sourced from the https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/

The problem that I see is that the 275hr are averaged among the rate of available airframe. Let’s say that 50% are available (what is somewhat what it is for real), each of those 275hr are spread among 2 Rafale. Hence you have to multiply 137.5hr per 97 airframe and use that to divide the MCO budget.
I am really sorry, but It should be something around 30k€….

I was reasoning on the basis of system of system. Imagine AIrbus and Dassault managing to complete with success their ambitious projects… Then they reach to the market already saturated with foreign AWAC ECM, JSTAR SIGINT etc.. system dominated by the US, UK/Italia and Sweden. What do they do to sell their system to a country already fielding NATO compatible or non-nato systems ? Send a notification letter asking them to modify their system in one week ?

I am sorry but if Sweden get on board Tempest, this might well be the swan song of the NGF (remember that French salesmen dream of a non-ITAR aircraft, hence non-NATO – there won’t be much other system around given the cost to develop and credibly sustain it).