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Old 28th Apr 2013, 09:37
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According to French Senate and UK's NAO, the Rafale's unit cost in France is about $200m, while the EF costs UK about $170m per unit, both figures including R&D (PAUC).
Granted, UK's cost is not the whole Eurofighter bill since Germany, Italy and Spain are sharing R&D expenses, but that's what partnerships are for and something JSF partners like Norway are supposed to be exempt from, which suggests the JSF is even costlier.
what year dollar?
SAR 2012 has the 2012 year dollar for average all (A,B,C) PAUC @ $134.5M
the other partners will be less because the USA is eating most of the R&D
why don't you look and see what is in the Norway 6 plane buy because I saw it said the unit cost of the plane is about $125m

so it looks like the f-35 is cheaper to me, no matter which way people want to measure it

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