Well this is what Rolls-Royce says for the years 1985-2004:

Just wanted to say what Arthur said, just without that tennis bit. 😉

To Kovy:

Rafale development : €10.1 billion
eurofighter development : €21.6 billion

OK it’s “only” twice more

I doubt your figures very much: UK R&D cost is 4.4 Billion pounds = 6.6 Billion Euros (1998), German R&D is 7 Billion DM = 3.5 Billion Euros, together that is 10.1 Billion Euros for 66% of the total R&D —–> that makes it a total of 15.3 Billion Euros.
http://www.eurofighter-typhoon.co.uk//Eurofighter/history.html

Also I heard very often, for example FlugRevue that French industry paid 25% of Rafale R&D, whereas your figure is only government R&D so it might well appear less, but in fact it might be very similar.

http://www.flug-revue.rotor.com/FRTypen/FRRafale.htm

so it means that once the production hits its peak they would assemble 1 aircraft per day??

No, it takes BAE SYSTEMS 6 weeks to assemble a Eurofighter, the JSF will take probably as long for LM, but what they mean is that one will roll out a day as they are building so many at the same time that every day one will have finished its 5-6 week assembly. 😀

The Hawk and the alphjet are both trainers and both originated at about the same time, as to the rest of your well post, I’ll try not to start laughing. :rolleyes:

Beautiful helicopters and the camouflage is great too.