Anything can carry a nuclear bomb – as long as (1) the bomb’s small enough & (2) it isn’t built to require special equipment aboard the aircraft. If country X buys a vanilla F-16, for example, all they have to do to make it nuclear-capable is build nukes that the F-16 sees as ordinary bombs.

Nukes generally require specially adapted aircraft because they’re built that way for very good & sensible security reasons, not because it’s an unavoidable feature imposed on designers by the nature of nuclear weapons.

Not really. think for example that they must not use GPS like systems which requires supplementary INS etc.

Which pretty much debunks the idea of the Rafale being acquired specifically for its nuclear strike capability.

Not really. It only debunks that ASMP/A missile won’t be exported.

The French use the Rafale as a ASMP-A platform. Nothing I’ve read so far has indicated that the ASMP-A is being exported to India.

ASMP/A will NOT be exported.

Rafale for Egypt don’t need specific logistic and double amount of spares to achieve a 50 % availaibility rate.
Then if for you less than 50% availaibility in simulated operational condition for F35, with specific optimum support framework is normal and routine… then it explains a lot.

source?

I believe they don’t call it Aster 30 Block 2, but just Aster Block 2. Really, it should have a different number. They could revive the Aster 45 designation.

As for when, I’m afraid I don’t know. AFAIK no date has been published, & there’s no definite commitment to buy it, though it would seem silly to develop it unless the intention is to put it into service.

Aster 30 NT. Contract was just inked.

This coming from you is rich. I have the exact numbers for Typhoon from the UK´s NAO and i have the exact numbers for the JSF program from the USAF and US Navy comptroller, believe me you dont want to go that way.

Rafale C CPH : 9484 €
http://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q14/14-22636QE.htm
All these numbers are questionable depending on what is included in.

Not so sure about that. It would give a rough location about over a mile wide at 100km and over half a mile wide at 50km. I guess that would give you somewhere to search with a TGP but it’s not accurate enough for targeting

i- they did it in Lybia (dead of popping up radars)
ii- there can be several plane or a single plane can circle aroud the raar to triangulate and get a proper track.