People who don’t know what industry and production is, greatly overestimate the “economy of scale” concept. It’s because that’s the only thing they can understand. (Nothing against you personaly Merlin, I’m annoyed by those industrial “merges”, “critical mass”, “economy of scale” and other paper pushers BS as a general thing”.
Ask General Motor how cool are economy of scale :diablo:
And ask the american aviation industry now that they’ve lost all diversity with only LM and Boeing that remain. They just can put out a 787 or a F35.
Diversity is a lot of little problem to deal with but that avoid BIG problem (ask the dinosaurus!)
According to this link, Dassault plant is capable of producing 350 fighters for export within a period of 10 years and we can easily add to this figure 100-120 or so for the French Airforce which means 450+ fighters within a decade which also means roughly 3-4 fighters a month, am I correct so far?
Instead, they are making this year less than one fighter a month with zero export and you are trying to tell me ( if I understood you correctly of course ) that the unit price of a Rafale today would pretty much the same regardless of the output as the concept of scale economy doesn’t apply to Dassault.
GM is in a different business mate ..For your information ,they came out of recession and bounced back with record profits never seen before in US automotive industry for decades ! do you believe they abandoned the concept of ‘Economies of Scale’ ?
What I am trying to say is that the current production rate of less than one fighter a month is not business for Dassault, its a struggle for survival and it has an impact on the price of Rafale simply because the main suppliers would charge different,higher prices for components they deliver.SNECMA for example delivers 2 M88’s a month instead of 8 and THALES and SAGEM electronics and radar’s for one fighter only instead of 3-4.Of course this would have an impact on price.
http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews/01paris1/airfrm08.htm
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