I agree, however Dassault may feel they have a better product, so I suppose they may have decided to cut price only just to still come out cheaper than the Eurofighter. Why would they do any more effort if they don’t have to?
Well or they could come up with a better offset package that counters the price advantage of the Rafale. The less difference in price, the more an offset advantage is going to tilt the balance.
Nic
There are two reports of who is the lowest Unit price, the first reports were Typhoon marginally more expensive than Rafale, the second was Typhoon had quoted a lower unit flyaway cost.
But the second came with an unnamed well placed sources saying
EADS, which is promoting the more advanced and thereby more expensive aircraft is said to have quoted a lower price “unit flyaway cost.”
This comes as a contradiction to all the assessments made in the past that Eurofighter is costly and that India might not purchase it due to cost pressures,” a source said.
All unnamed of course…:)
Named source quoted as saying
MoD spokesperson Sitanshu Kar, without confirming anything said: “…This is just the unit cost, there is more work left before one could rejoice or feel otherwise. We have some of our best personnel looking into the matter and the L-1 could be announced in another six to eight weeks.”
source
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/203282/fighter-deal-suspense-continues.html
So someone has to be wrong!!
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