Will EF-2000 and Rafale end up using shared systems?

[muskau]

Hi,

Since apparently both EF-2000 and Rafale have had budgeting troubles, will
companies like Dassault and Bae end up developing systems for both planes
and sharing the cost of development?

This may have already started happening but I don't keep up to date with
military economics news.

Thanks,

muskau

[John Cook]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:05:09 +1000, "muskau" >
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Since apparently both EF-2000 and Rafale have had budgeting troubles, will
>companies like Dassault and Bae end up developing systems for both planes
>and sharing the cost of development?
>
>This may have already started happening but I don't keep up to date with
>military economics news.
>
>Thanks,
>
>muskau
>
>

The Systems are quite seperate, however the radar that is in
development (AMSAR) will be fitted to both aircraft in the future,
modes of operation and software will differ somewhat....

Cheers

John Cook

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