Thanks. Quite interesting. I do wonder though why they have listed the unit cost of the ‘Super’-Viper at US$30m, when the Block 60 for the UAE is at 80. Also, on the same platform, why they claim it can supercruise (the only aircraft in the MMRCA that I thought could do that at a speed that made sense and when not completely clean were the Typhoon and the Gripen NG, and even then only with an A2A loadout). When did the F-16 become a combat load s’cruiser?
The information on the chart is rather dated and not entirely accurate. The cost of the UAE’s F-16 Block 60 at the begining of the last decade was about 80 million a-piece, so the F-16IN (based on the Block 60) would roughly only be a few million dollars cheaper in the face in inflation and cost of adding new systems.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=9877
The supercruise entry is a typo-the Rafale folks have claimed that their bird can do it with the newer M-88-3 engines and payload of 4 AAMs.