Parece que ninguém sabe ao certo qual será o preço do EF, mas sem dúvida nenhuma será um avião com um preço um tanto ou quanto exorbitante.
Acho um absurdo um avião custar mais que 50M de Euros/Dolares para comprar. Pelo menos por enquanto, quem sabe com a inflação daqui a 10 anos 50M não é nada.
Aqui vai umas notícias duma agéncia notíciaria sobre a compra dos EF pelos alemães.
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EUbusiness
30 April 2004
The German air force announced Friday that it had officially put its first five Eurofighter jets into service in the northern city of Rostock.
The five aircraft, which will be used mainly for training purposes, were given to the Steinhoff fighter squadron based in Laage.
Germany, which was the first country to take delivery of the European-made fighter but the second to put it into service after Italy, has ordered 180 of the combat aircraft at a cost of
80 million euros (95 million dollars) each. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a multi-role combat jet with a range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles) and can be equipped with a mix of missiles depending on its mission.
It is built by a four-nation consortium involving the French-Spanish-German group EADS, Britain's BAE Systems and Italy's Alenia.
Britain has ordered 232 aircraft, Italy 121 and Spain 87. Last year Austria became the first nation outside the consortium to place an order, asking for 18. Greece has committed to 60 with an option for a further 30 aircraft.
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Aqui vai mais umas informações vindas da revista Forbes
Friday April 30, 3:19 PM EDT
By Nick Antonovics
LAAGE AIR FORCE BASE, Germany, April 30 (Reuters) - German junior defence minister Peter Eickenboom said on Friday he expected the four nations building the Eurofighter military jet to have agreed terms for a second tranche of deliveries by summer.
But Eickenboom declined to speculate on what the final cost of the fighter jet could be amid German media reports that Germany's 180 planes alone could cost 19.5 billion euros rather than the 18 billion euros estimated so far.
"The negotiations that are now going on are about deciding how the money is divided between the second and third tranches and on this point we are getting close to an agreement with industry," Eickenboom told a news conference to mark Eurofighter's entry into service with the German air force.
"We hope we can go with the draft to the (German parliament) budget committee by June so we can get authorisation to give the go-ahead with our partners during the summer break," he said.
Friday's ceremony was 16 years after Germany, Britain, Italy, and Spain first agreed to build what is now known as the Eurofighter, whose development has been plagued by delays.
Those four nations have ordered 620 of the jets being built jointly by EADS, BAE Systems of the U.K. (BA) and Italy's Alenia Aerospazio (SIFI).
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily heralded the plane's entry into German service with the headline "Empty shell in the air" and said the plane could fly only in fair weather.
But industry and military officials at the launch ceremony dismissed the report that the two-seater version of the Eurofighter that has already been delivered was not fully operational.
"It's ridiculous. We fly in winter all the time," said Wolfdietrich Hoeveler, head of military aircraft communications at EADS.
Hoeveler said more than 135 Eurofighter jets were in production or had already been delivered out of the first tranche total of 148.
He said second-tranche production was fixed at 236 planes and that had been confirmed by all partners, dismissing reports Britain was seeking to change the size of its commitment.
Hoeveler said that what needed to be negotiated were the conditions and requirements attached to the second tranche.
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