So all that guff I took from BW about pricing the Rafale at about $180 million a copy was undeserved?  Now we find that the Rafale is priced at over $300 million a copy?  Eeeeeuuuuuuu.....  Dude, even the F-22 is a bargan in comparison.

Typhoon Tranche 2: 112.5 million Euros or US$ 178 million (cost to Saudi Arabia)

That is not a reflection of the aircraft price - that is a reflection of how high Saudi bribes are - it is common practice to over charge the Saudi's, just to pay the money back from their treasury to their princes.

 

It's hard to determine from the link if the comparisons are apples and oranges. Do all the offers contain the same level of support, spares, training , simulators, weapons, level of equipment...etc? Would each of the F-35 models A,B or C cost the same, for example. Would the price be reduced for a bigger buy? I am not sure how helpful the link is.

It's hard to determine from the link if the comparisons are apples and oranges. Do all the offers contain the same level of support, spares, training , simulators, weapons, level of equipment...etc? Would each of the F-35 models A,B or C cost the same, for example. Would the price be reduced for a bigger buy? I am not sure how helpful the link is.

What we may be able to take away from this is that Rafale and Typhoon are solidly in the "expensive" class of aircraft. We also can infer that Rafale is suffering for not achieving economies of scale that a robust set of export sales would have given. (Although this second point is hardly a surprise and it's really only confirming widely held beliefs).

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I couldn't  verify these price claims. But it sounds like contract value per unit rather than unit price of the aircrafts. It may be that someone took the value of a deal and divided it by the number of airframes. This can be a gross;ly inaccurate way of looking at aircraft prices. The "deal" usually include ground equipment, spares, pilot training, logistics training, weapons, maintenance contracts, etc. Typically, the price of a fighter is only between 1/3 to 2/3 that of an acquisition deal.