Posted on 02/16/2017 10:59:29 AM PST by markomalley
The price of the F-35 will continue to drop and the variant being purchased by the Air Force and international partners could cost as little as $80 million per plane, the general in charge of the Joint Program Office told lawmakers on Thursday.
Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, the F-35 program executive officer, said officials are "on track to keep driving down price." He said that by fiscal 2019, the F-35A, which takes off and lands on runways, will cost between $80-85 million each.
The Pentagon reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin this month to buy the 10th lot of 90 aircraft. In that batch, an F-35A cost $94.6 million, marking the first time the per-plane cost fell below $100 million. The F-35B version used by the Marine Corps to take off and land vertically cost $122.8 million, and the F-35C that can take off and land on Navy aircraft carriers cost $121.8 million per plane.
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MORE WINNING!...................
Can we bring back the Raptor now please????
GO TRUMP GO
If you believe government inflation statistics, in 1945, the cost of a P-51, the most technologically advanced fighter airplane of its time, cost the equivalent of about $675,000 in today’s dollars.
Trump will have them offering a buy one get one free offer soon.
So what’s your point?
Its only one data point. But for sure, whatever the next generation of fighter is in 40 years, it will no doubt cost at least $ several billion per copy. Our bankrupt government will be able to buy about 2, so they better be really good.
Who makes Super-charged V-12 engines anymore? Some things you can’t buy at any price.
Flat panel 42” televisions cost $15,000 in 2001. Now they’re selling for $300.
Floormats not included.
Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
Lockheed will simply raise spare parts by several multiples to make up the difference.
Congratulations! You’ve won a near totally useless but very expensive (but now with less expense) POS!
A POS which has so many problems no one has plans to fix them which is why the price dropped. Fixing things like being able to turn the radar on; firing its gun; carrying more than 2 bombs; having a range so short that it needs to be based right on the front lines and within S-300/400/500 range; needing constant tanker support because it burns so much fuel, leaving it useless once the tankers are taken out. A POS which cannot take off once its tankers are gone, or it will be shot down before in gets much past the end of its runway.
Congratulations!
A few years ago a company began making flying scale replica’s of the Focke-Wulf FW-190. The only suitable radial engine that they could find of similar diameter (that would fit the cowl geometry) was a Russian engine. Ironic, huh?
So while there may be a radial-design or 2 kicking around, nobody makes a V-12. This is why the the Super Tocano trainer/light-strike aircraft uses a turbo prop. Even Rockwell (formerly North American) has proposed variants of the old P-51 fitted with Turbo-Props. Advantages/disadvantages.
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