Flocking BS! Here are the workers
I have seen two of those plants, dubious mate!
The other one is in Châtellerault and specializes
in maintenance and repairs.
You should keep to posting those sourced news
pieces although also coloured and inventive.
I'll use the converted 7.87 B € if you don't mind,
mate, because the prices are in Euros since made
in Europe contrarily to what our buddy thought ⇡.
So yes 7.87 over the 6.3 of Qatar or 4.5 of Egypt.
Breakdown of differences : Egypt got the F3.3 std.
*
just activated in the French air force with no other
modifications than substitution of NATO-radios &
such switched to a locally selected version. In fact
the first 3 were pulled out of Fr. AF line like that.
Minimal weaponry as it would be incompatible with
their other planes so a set for 24 aircrafts.
Not 36.
Qatar also asked for 24 planes not 36 but the asso.
armament was huge, a nice little stockpile allowing
"practice shots" and all. That explains why they did
not need anything but the cells and engines on the
option for 12 they exercised recently for 92M€ each.
That number in turn multiply it by 24 for 2.2B€ and
again by 36 for 3.3B€. You can take out those values
from 6.3 and 7.87 & find 4.1 and 4.6 B€ respectively.
So that in fact India payed a bit more than Qatar for
the other expanses past a naked fluids-filled aircraft.
A bit more!
Not an undue sum either as the number, 500M€ isn't
even equal to what a renowned Pakistani official would
have gotten
( FYI 787M ) so corruption as implied by some,
not really.
Let's see if the difference even exist by comparing what
we know of those associated packages.
Qatar got a hefty slew of weapons and very little offsets.
India got somewhat less weapons and very tall offsets/ToT.
Qatar got two squadrons raised in France already operating
to train their pilots and mechs in advance of phase incl. the
classes over a couple years.
India got two bases with all equipment for maintenance and
shelters and hangars built to specs & normal in-house training.
Qatar chose to ask for select modifications : HMCS validation,
targeting pod integration, etc.
India asked for an open route to include weapons over time,
especially indigenous ones still under development. HMCS incl.
Both were based on an F3R -2018 standard.
India gets a cooperation on local manufacture under MMI.
And that last one sticks out as possibly the worth of those 500M €?
And some Indians think they got played?
And here I was thinking they were great at maths acc. to stereotype.
India got a very good very very good deal as Trump would say.
Feel free to republish this in India or anywhere as long as you mention
PDF as the origin and the author. The hisses and laughs unwarranted as
they'll be will be worth it if it stops people from asking again the same
questions already answered last of a thousand times in posts # 6367-75.
* To be brought up to 3.4+ the present standard before F3R.
Have a good day both in any case, Tay.
P.S. Thanks Surya mate!