I am going to ignore your gibberish and stupid content, however, to answer your VALID question (like the one you couldn't answer for me), here's the cost:
F/A-18A-D has $18k cost per flying hour. However, the cost per flying hour on land based operations is listed as 10K per flying hour, per the comptroller's office (GAO reports, Comptroller, etc). This is due to reduce land based fatigue, compared to the carrier based fatigue that the aircraft go through when they are operational on a CBG.
Just to give you MORE quality, the estimated cost by government's comptroller's office for the -35 is estimated to be about $ 30-40 K, however, it is estimated that initially, it will be about 30-50% higher and as the platform gets deployed more and gets matured (bugs fixed and all), it will go down to $ 35-50 K per hour. Higher costs are primarily due to the "stealthy skin" (RAM quoting, special materials maintenance, etc).
How about you answer my question that you guys have been ignoring and bringing all these insults and all.......the question for the 20th time was:
"what was the per hour maintenance cost for the Rafale"?
@Oscar @Irfan Baloch @Horus : Please see these silly posts. I've asked a simple question as outlined above....and instead of getting an answer, the entire India is doing an Indo-Pak war. This behavior should not be allowed and people like these, should be banned who derail threads and force others to respond in kind.
I employee about 13 Indians in my team. I have to admit, they are much down to earth and nice people. Compared to people like you and your cousins, who have fake sense of super-being and think you can milk a country like the US, and become a bigger country when your system is run on American provided jobs and investments!!!
back to the planet earth buddy. Know your role on the map before silly commenting on something!
!!! Care to list out cost per hour flight time? That's usually outside of the purchase and infrastructure cost!
