Tuesday, May 3, 2011

100th Rafale Delivered

According to the Delta Reflex Spotters, the 100th production Rafale, the C130 (30th Rafale C) would have made its reception flight on April 27th at the Bordeaux-Merignac airport.










The current delivery log should be :
  • 4 production aircrafts used for trials :  B301, B302, C101, M1
  • 9 Rafale M F1 (tranche 1): M2 to M10 put in storage and waiting for their F3 upgrade.
  • 48 Rafale F3 (Tranche 2, former F2) : 
    • 7 C (C102 to C108)
    • 25 B (B303 to B327)
    • 16 M (M11 to M26)
  • 39 Rafale F3 (Tranche 3) : 
    • 22 C (C109 to C130)
    • 11 B (B328 to B338)
    • 6 M (M27 to M32)
So a total of  32 Rafale M, 38 Rafale B and 30 Rafale C.
Among those 100 fighters delivered so far, only 83 (19 M,  35 B and 29 C) are in operational service (3M and 1B lost, 9M in storage, 2B, 1C and 1M for trials)

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