50,xx+% on the Rafale side.
Yes and you know why. Relatiively AdA is much more involved in OPEX than USAF and need to smooth down utilization between aircrafts within Sqds. Back to Red Flag 17-3, how many planes for how many flight hours within 3 weeks? IOn Lybia, Rafale M flew up to 40 hours/week/plane… But why bringing Rafale here Tomcat? Your old obsession about french flying machines?
The really interesting part is that wanting to make more money faster on one side, and to secure as much as possible of the program on the other, LM is producing new F-35 too fast, hence 108 aircrafts with a dubious future and others lacking spare parts.
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