All that I understand but it would be good to know the unit Fly Away Cost of Rafale for India is what I am stating
For that you would first need to define what a Unit fly away cost is and for what. Is it a bare bone aircraft? if so, can the India even get that? Will the french fly a bare bone aircraft hand over the keys and go back? What exactly can the IAF do with that bare bone aircraft? No because no one sends out a bare bone aircraft to a foreign operator because it has absolutely no use for that. You could totally exclude the weapons package from the price but you can't exclude either the spares or support materials required to deliver the aircraft to India and keep it flying. Its like that with all foreign equipment sales unless the contract involves signing and handing over TOT and licenced production in which case the end user has a fly-away recurring price that it targets. In those situations the recurring fly away price is important because it tells you what your production process costs. I haven't seen any export deal for any fighter aircraft that draws a distinction between just the airframe+engine and everything else. It usually involves the aircraft with the support, spares and equipment/training required to integrate it into the operator's fleet and a weapons package that may be a part of that. That is standard practice, whether you buy Russian aircraft, French, Non French European, American or Swedish. You pay for a weapons system, and that is what all operators of the Rafale, Typhoon, F-35, Mig29, Su-30 (now Su-35) and Gripen have paid. There's a good reason why this is !! If I were to speculate, when the IAF and the MOD asked for bids for the MMRCA, they must have asked for the weapons system cost i.e the cost of each aircraft delivered to the IAF with all that is required to support them.
As far as the bare bone cost of the Rafale, 120-150 Million is probably right with the number closer to 120 Million than to 150, but just like the F-35A URF price of $108 Million, it has no real significance to an export customer that is likely to pay 70-80 million on top of that for support, training, spares, weapons and simulators among other things. Of course if the URF (Flyaway) cost comes down, so will the overall cost paid by a foreign customer but to that end the rafale is a mature aircraft and Dassault would know fairly well what it would cost at 11 a year, 20 a year or even 30 a year and the contract amount will reflect that. Not many doubted that the rafale would be expensive as a weapons system but some of these numbers coming out of the Qatar, Egypt and the IAF deal are well above what I had expected. I expected it to be about 20% cheaper than either the PAKFA/T-50 or the F-35. While the former has yet to narrow down on a serial production and nail down an export contract the latter has already sold the jet through FMS at cheaper prices than the "slightly more than $200 Million" being quoted in the article above. While I still support the Rafale acquisition, the IAF may need to seriously reduce the eventual procurement..At this rate/cost I don't think they'll look to get more than 50-60 (Total)..