he has already said he is leaving the rafale order for the next president and even if he makes a grandstand speech, the next president has the power to do what she/he wants with the competition
you repeatedly copy pasting something you found changes nothing even if you wish it might

i know, i just would have liked something like the us budget pdf’s that splits down the price
also the more i read the more that 59m euro looks wrong
http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/369/
http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/368/
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Eurofighters-EUR-9B-Miltinational-Tranche-3A-Contract-05674/
it seems the t3a 9b/80m euro isnt the full kit, even though it has 17 spare engines and the computer costs you are talking about are needed to bring t3a up to date and so arent separate for t1-2
if the computer R&D is included in the 9b that would need to be taken out
at this stage i’m seeing t3a as 80+m euro’s even allowing for the extra engines

i am curious now, but before it was just to try and work out what the phoon costs in flyaway and what is included in it
so as to have a somewhat comparable cost to other flyaways

read my link i put up about it

so whats the story with no more rafale for france for years

i’m still waiting for you to acknowledge that the swiss are doing the integration of the antenna to the backend

i know rafale production for france has been very slow, but is it really true they are stopping production for france, at this stage for 2 years ?
what happens if there are no exports or they come late, are they are just going to shut the line ?

of more concern to aussies is the tiger and nm90 choppers and when you guys are going to spend development money so we can get IOC
the nh90 are grounded here because of engine problems and the french owned assembler here has had money stopped to them a couple of times

You are wrong again jackjack. The RBE2 AESA is much more than just an AESA antenna add on. I have already posted an older air et cosmos report detailing all the hardware and performance upgrade. New processor, new architecture etc…I hope that another poster will quote this (I have lost track on this report despite several google search).

and you are quick to tackle Thales but look what selex is preparing for the Typhoon :

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?specialEvent=farn10&id=news%2Fawst%2F2010%2F07%2F19%2FAW_07_19_2010_p65-238534.xml&headline=Typhoon+Partners+Focus+On+Sensor+Upgrade

if you google thales and australia, you will find that thales are ok with aussies and i have said given the money they can do a decent radar
i havent really looked at phoons or selex in any detail, there arent any fanboys spouting nonsense to motivate me to look at it, other than the phoon price
i did look at the gripen radar and they are including EW in it, unlike rafale
its said rafale has problems in its computer architecture, so rbe2 wouldnt surprise me either, as/more important is the software

just spend 1 mn in google and you know but i guess you more interested in posting dumb statement 😀
http://www.armedforces-int.com/article/aircraft-radar-development.html

you might want to google for 1mn 10sec then and see that the subassembly is to integrate the antenna to the backend

LoL

i have put a link up to where the swiss are integrating the antenna to the backend
i havent bothered to see who is making the antenna, but i have asked here if anyone knows