most of the f-35 work is done subsonic, its the way it was designed to do it
if needed it has good acceleration and transonic performance

i dont mind if usa costs are $500 bln or more
the partners pay the flyaway cost, refer to my post at the top of the page

do you know what projection means ?

why would aust want to design build by its self and end up with a second rate plane that even 3rd world airforces dont want

aus has designed some of the f-35 with tech transfer to the project
it is also building part of the f-35, as are the other partners

Sintra, if you dont want to see what i mean, you wont
let me try again using aust.
we design and build typhoon for a total of $200 mil each in a 5 nation euro partnership
or we can partner usa with 8 nations and buy the f-35a for about $70 mil each, including our R&D contribution of $144 mil or $1.44 mill per aircraft with 100 ordered and share in the work
the latter seems a better option for capability of plane and cost

With regards to the Rafale, from french sources.
Total programme costs are 40.7 bln €. This is for R & D, industrialisation, simulators, spares and other support and the production of 286 aircraft. This cost is for the time frame from 1989 to 2021 and includes the VAT.
Substracting the VAT the cost is 34 bln €, but that’s not what the tax payer has to pay, because 25% of the R & D was paid by the manufacturer himself. With an R & D of supposely 9.8 bln €, the manufacturer paid about 2.5 bln € himself. In other words the Rafale programme costs the french tax payer some 31.5 bln € over timeframe of ~30 years.

Courtesy goes to TMor who has figured it out by mailing Dassault for a more detailed explaination and using the latest public figures from the French government.

Edit:
BTW production of batch 4 should be finished by 2015 not 2020.

you might want to check your production numbers till 2015
i was being conservative saying 2020 for the now ordered aircraft, including the last order of 60, i read 2020-25
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.air-defense.net/forum/index.php%3Ftopic%3D12085.2800&ei=1foGTO3eOsbXceuEoZUO&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.parlement-ue2008.fr/rap/a08-548/a08-54816.gif%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DGqJ%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official

but seeing this is a phoon thread, we should be talking about its price
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/mod_planning_round_analysis/page2.html
In terms of unit costs, Tranche 3 could be a good idea. The RAF’s 232 Typhoons will have cost the taxpayer an average £86m with Tranche 3; without, the 144 planes would each cost £138m, in the same ballpark as the Americans’ new F-22 Stealth ultrasuperfighter. (Disregard any RAF Eurofighter cost quote you see lower than £86m. These lower pricetags can be produced only after highly creative accounting, or as it is sometimes known, ‘lying’

Total number of fighters ordered: 180
Total program cost 39.6 bln EUR (1,46 EURUSD) = 57.8 bln $
UPC = 321 mln $

ok, it could of been for the ordered aircraft till 2020, $321mil

i found a post of toans in a banter 35 thread on costing
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showpost.php?p=1553204&postcount=39
F-35：

1. Average unit productional cost from 2007 to 2010 for 58 fighters: 248.3 million USD per fighter.

2. Anticipated unit average productional cost from 2007 to 2015 for 420 fighters: 172.4 million USD per fighter.

3. Anticipated unit average productional cost from 2007 to 2034 for 2443 fighters: 111.9 million USD per fighter.

4. Anticipated unit average R&D + Productional cost from 2007 to 2034 for 2443 fighters: 132.3 million USD per fighter.

Rafale：

1. Average unit productional cost in 2009: 101.1 million Euro per fighter –> Around 141.5 million USD in 2009 or 135.5 million USD right now.

2. Anticipated unit R&D + Productional cost from 1997 to 2030 for 286 fighters: 142.3 million Euro per fighter –> Around 199.2 million USD in 2009 or 190.7 million USD right now.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/dae…1-18-02-10.jpg

without opening the link yet, it was said at the time the phoon was about 250 mil