After Christmas.:mad:
While there may be many reasons for good Frenchmen to rejoice that they left the Eurofighter programme, it seems self evident that the French share of costs of a five nation Typhoon programme would have been much less than the 100% share of a single nation programme
We don’t know…
Because France might have bought or leased F-18 for the MN, or the “Five Nation Typhoon” (how pretentious to keep the name “Typhoon” with France having the biggest order book at the time) would have had to be navalised, and in addition, France would have to pay for F-35 in the A2G role.
Different fighters, not a single one fitting the needs. Quite a sacrifice ! At least, our industries were preserved as far as possible, Rafale is extremely satisfying, whatever you say, it’s on cost.
What, I thought the Rafale was found to be cheaper than Typhoon in Switzerland? (in addition to scoring higher on the requirements…)
Some are still playing with a figure which came from an error by another journalist.
From the very begining, every news about the Swiss deal showed that Typhoon was the most expensive.
But again, while J. could show himself informative in appropriate thread, he prefers fighting ideas here, again in a anti-French, anti-Rafale manner, with poor and partial understanding of what we give him. Always backstabbing. And then, as always, will use his command of English to tell everyone that he is simply bringing light to us, attributing merit when it’s due, punishing evil snail-munching Rafale fanboys, et cetera, et cetera.
Jackonicko : In 2004, the Cour des Comptes estimated Rafale total cost at €35Bn. With inflation only (12.5% since 2004), this gives 40Bn only in actualized prices in 2010, and €43.5Bn now in late 2011.
You don’t understand anything, just like when French talk about British NAO figures.
but a very close second would be terrific.
Merry Xmas
LoL
Thank you both.
Merry Christmas to you, too (yes, both of you).
I thought AESA would come next year, but it seems I was wrong?
This is because the production radars will come in 2012, first AESA Rafale should be evaluated by the CEAM then before it become operational (enough AESA Rafale delivered) in 2014. Something like that.
Is this title a joke ? 😮
At least, Europe should bag the deal in India. Because up to now, there is nothing good happening for our industries… 🙁
However AEROS does play a big role wrt dynamic targeting.
Exactly, and French pilots have expressed their will to have a coordinates extraction function developed for this pod.
Are you sure you’re in the right thread ?
+1,000
In addition, the information already had been proven wrong.
But nobody cares as long as JackoLake keeps on spending so much time on a Rafale thread to talk about another type without naming it…
30pages with 30 messages per page layout… isn’t time to start a new Rafale News XII ?
Bullsh#t…
It’s all about delivery rate. Air Force want 8 Rafale per year, but it’s too low for the industrials (they can’t get below 11). If export contracts are signed, it helps our Air Force decreasing its delivery rate, since exported Rafale should fill the gap.
The target number of Rafale has nothing to do with this yet.
Yes, it is duly noted 😉
Interesting.
When Gripen fly over them, they are “super advanced libyan IADS”, but when it’s Rafale, they only are “vietnam era AD”.:rolleyes:
I guess that economies of scale and a higher production rate have an effect.
Gosh… I thought you were trying hard to focus only on Rafale… How naive of me ! I feel betrayed too…
Ok, Jon, I will pardon you, only if you can talk to you RAF friends so as to offer me a flight on Typhoon…
:rolleyes:
How many AASM were fired in Libya?
139 by AdlA
80 by MN.
How much does each Rafale cost the French MoD, now? Unit production cost and unit programme cost….
I answer with no afterthough, as I’m glad to see that you try to turn the thread back to a pure Rafale thread. These are the last figures I heard about :
http://rafale.freeforums.org/post9.html#p9
http://rafale.freeforums.org/post674.html#p674
http://rafale.freeforums.org/post676.html#p676