It is fully sourced (CFPH in Lybia). https://vanguardcanada.com/2013/09/11/mission-satisfaction-rafale-offers-proven-capability/

14000 euros sry, not dollars. Still…more or less half of F-35 (not to mention during that war Rafale M flew up to 35 hours/week….

Except that internal prices for countries like France do not contain the subsidy amounts. This was made evident when India reported on the cost breakdown of the Rafale where the plane itself was $110 mil, before a mysterious $50 mil “India customization” markup and did not include any support, parts or weapons.

There is nothing such a s any subsidy in Rafale program. Indian exact cost repartition is not known. Just suppositions. Nothing solid. Exactly like your excel sheet graph, i can see different numbers about cpfh in every report from GAO etc.25000$ or less (depending on how it is computed) do not mean a lot as hard values. Everyone is complaining about elevated costs indluding DoD.

Dassault did play well on the “make in india” part. Front parts of Falcon are produced from Nagpur, and a much bigger building is being built.
How to build confidence in a partner…

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No one said Flynn isn’t qualified or not credible. But since he works for LM he would tend to only present the positive aspects of the F-35. Just because he’s qualified and knowledgeable doesn’t mean he’s unbiased. Are you not intelligent enough to know the fallacy of appealing to authority?

For once i will disagree. As Scooter is citing Flynn, giving Flynn records isn’t wrong imho.

US heavily pressuring Germany…

https://www.ft.com/content/4b56e040-6993-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

Germany’s F-35 fighter rebuff raises questions for Nato partners
Lockheed Martin’s Europe chief warns ‘retrograde step’ imperils defence co-operation
“Germany’s decision not to buy the F-35 stealth fighter jet is a “retrograde step” that could hamper the country’s ability to operate at the same level as its Nato partners, according to the European head of Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the aircraft.
Jonathan Hoyle, vice-president for Europe at the US defence group, said the German decision in January to exclude the F-35 from further consideration to replace its ageing Tornado fleet had caught a lot of governments “on the hop”. The German defence ministry said at the time it had decided to acquire either more Eurofighters from Airbus, the European group, or Boeing-made F-18s.
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Europe remains a key growth area for Lockheed, added Mr Hoyle, notably Poland, which will become a regional hub for the group. Poland has pledged to spend 2 per cent of its strongly growing gross domestic product each year on defence as part of a 10-year modernisation plan outlined in 2013.”

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