National Defence committee  We have designed the Eurofighter with a number of radar cross-section reducing measures. We have locally inserted some material, some shaping to reduce the front radar cross-section of the aircraft. We can do more. We have provisions for adding additional material; however, this

National Defence committee  What price?

National Defence committee  I haven't said that, but--

National Defence committee  No, the number you said before was much higher than this.

National Defence committee  I cannot confirm it now, but we can work on it.

National Defence committee  You don't finish your activity on the aircraft once you have completed assembly of the 65 aircraft. You will have maintenance overall and scheduled maintenance at 400 and 800 hours, with that interval. That will require basically the same tooling and the same industrial capabilit

National Defence committee  I cannot comment too deeply on the Saudi acquisition, because this was a government-to-government acquisition made by the U.K. We as industry made our offer to the procurement agent of the U.K. government, and we really don't know what the final offer of the U.K. to Saudi Arabia

National Defence committee  No, no.

National Defence committee  The acquisition for Saudi Arabia was quite a peculiar one, because it was government to government. We only know part of the story, from an industry perspective. In other competitions—and in particular those in Japan, India, Turkey, Romania—we are acting as the contractor of th

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  It is correct, but I may add one element. When we talk about industrial return, we have to differentiate between what we call “direct offset”—that is, on the program—or “indirect offset”, which could be in any other industrial area: defence outside the Eurofighter program or else

National Defence committee  We have 620 aircraft ordered by the core nations, out of which 232 are for the U.K. and 129 are for Italy. Apart from this 620, we have 15 aircraft already delivered to Austria. We have 72 aircraft being delivered to Saudi Arabia. This brings the total to over 700. We are competi

National Defence committee  We have offered the final assembly line already in two competitive tenders that we are currently participating in, namely those with Japan and India. We were offering this to Greece in the early days, when this was an active campaign, before the difficult economic situation of Gr

National Defence committee  For Turkey, the offer has not been formally taken up by the country. We are still discussing and promoting the campaign, so there is no formal requirement from Turkey in that sense. But with Japan and India, where formal competitions are currently under way, we have put it in our

National Defence committee  We are competing for what is called the MMRCA; that's “medium multi-role combat aircraft”. Today there are six contenders.