French planes are crap

"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message
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In message , Chad Irby
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"killfile" wrote:
How is one F/A-22 going to kill six Rafales?
By calling on his two wingmen, of course.

Unless the Rafales are selling for less than $30 million each, of course.

Are these in French service or exported? Very different accounting
systems used (one of the reasons people joke about "Shock Horror News
From France - GIAT Makes Profit!")

Parts, support, and training included.

Hey, how much do you get for the cost of a F-22? Not much in terms of
maintenance, crew training, or flying hours... you get the aircraft and
the rest is all extra, same as the competition.

Irby is misrepresenting the airframe costs either way. The $170 million a
copy F-22 price is for 336 pieces. For 70 pieces the F-22 will be over $300
million a copy. That of course assumes the program woks out their problems
during FY2004, otherwise there will be only about a dozen production copys
ever.