You did miss the story with Dassault using erroneous hourly rate in the MMRCA submission, did you?

How horrific! Nice to see you’re found of fairy tales as far as Dassault (or anyother fench thing for instance) has the wron role in it… Were you traumatized by french as you were very young?

So Fuel panel.

AESA equipped meteor..

Oh… F-356 cot shrinking? Not for euro countries…

Dutch Gov’t Maybe Can’t Afford Last Three JSF Fighter Jets

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/188886/dutch-may-cut-last-three-jsf-fighters.html

Nothing new in this letter. It simply mentions a 20% discount on Eurofighter which was talked during/just after MMRCA. The numbers given are pure speculation/misinformation. Few weeks ago, a former in India told us to w&ait for imminent mud slinging campaign. He was right
Only two memebers of the commission disareed on the cost calculation.
Every other agreed and selected Rafale as L1 bidder.
Case closed. The Rafale is cheaper than Eurofighter. (and F-35!!!)

Rumours are talking of a further 12 batch of RAfale early dec. (arouind the 7/12) for Macron visit.

Qataris likely think of it as insurance to insulate them from western criticism for financing terror groups.

It was a shrewd move to sucker Bush into moving USAF from Prince Sultan to Al Udeid.

Because Saudi did not? Hilarious.

Dave IS probably the front runner. Still, lifetie costs may not be its strongest point and budget is limited to about 100 million/aircraft.

That is called religious faith

No it is called zealots fanatism… Or Dansih biased calculations…

Some are not convinced:

Era is still pursuing Airbus Helicopters through the courts, arguing that it was sold helicopters with a known safety defect, a position the manufacturer vehemently disputes.

Everything is said. Offshore oil market is in pretty bad shape and trying to make money…