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Sure, I posted it in my Rafale vs F18SH comparison before, it's from the FAB (Brazilian Air Force) technical evaluation report:
Original source:
ISTOÉ Independente - Economia & Negócios
Sacho bhai,
Flyaway cost of rafale for France in 2008 was $ 82.3 million.
Official Source
So,
Official sources of the Brazilian MoD has quoted fly away costs for all the final contenders as:
$79 million for Rafale
$55 million for F18SH
$50 million for Gripen E/F
That is very, very hard to believe!
Now, about the article you quoted,
1st qoute- posting it in full
The report shows the FAB positive and negative points of each plane using a color code (blue, yellow and red) instead of notes. Of the three, the French jet features the most comprehensive technology package and the Swede appears at first glance, like the best price. Your unit value without the stimulus of armaments and maintenance costs, is U.S. $ 50 million... It would be a good deal, the Gripen NG was not just a development project. This makes it impossible to calculate their real costs and ensure compliance with the deadlines.
I think this one is talking about the grippen's price and not Rafale's so not relevant here.
2nd qoute..
..Nevertheless, the American fighter is offered today at a stable price of $ 55 million. In the case of the Rafale, to be fully operational, it took 7.5 billion euros (U.S. $ 10.9 billion), a difference of 50% over the initial estimate. Price per unit without arms and support was 94 million euros ($ 136 million) when it began to be sold, but then fell to 54 million euros ($ 78 million). This is the value offered to Brazil in the latest proposal by Dassault and even practiced with the French government.
This is not from any direct official document from Brazillian AF (FAB) but just a claim from this daily that it has a copy of this report.
IstoE obtained confidential details of the offers of the finalists: the French Rafale from Dassault, the American F-18 Super Hornet, Boeing, and the Swedish Gripen, Saab.
How reliable is this claim?
Do we have any other confirmation from any direct source, this article looks biased?
Consider this news report from AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE which is trashing your source.
Early this month, the Brazilian government denied it had made a final decision to buy the Rafales, and said a newspaper report that Dassault had lopped two billion dollars off their total price to secure the contract was baseless.
The daily, Folha de S. Paulo, published an unsourced report saying France was willing to sell the Rafales for a discounted 6.2 billion dollars -- down from 8.2 billion dollars -- plus another four billion dollars in maintenance over the next three decades.
Your source also quotes the 10 billion $ tag, same as the above. Which is wrong according to this!
Please bolster this claim for the unit price of rafale. And then I'll return to your original post about operational costs and how EFT is as good as Rafale in that sector too!
@Benny bhai,
Spectra, Elix-er etc. post coming up!