Joint Strike Fighter price now double

The Copenhagen Post ^ | March 12, 2010

[myknowledge]

Continual price hikes and delays in final production have made the American Joint Strike Fighter an albatross around the neck of Danish Defence

One of the jets that Danish Defence has been considering as a replacement for its F-16s just got more expensive – again.

The US Defence Department has upped the price of American manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter to 540 million kroner per plane, according to news agency AFP.

But when original negotiations for purchasing the jets began in 1999, the going rate was around 275 million kroner per plane. The US military, which has been heavily involved in the plane’s development, has increased the cost several times since then.

[myknowledge]

The F-35 Lightning II has increased in unit price. Where is the money going? The military-industrial complex has been sucking money like leeches in return for these kinds of projects to go behind schedule, resulting in cost overruns. Guess Robert Gates made the mistake of firing the program manager.

The F-35 is no match for a late model Flanker in close combat and combat persistence.

The price rise would make continuing Raptor production more and more attractive.

[RightOnline]

Few million kroner here...few million kroner there...pretty soon yer talkin’ real money.

[LurkLongley]

But that would mean actually leaping ahead in war making technology! We can’t have that! Don’t you see, we are the problem and the Raptor and it’s ability to actually achieve air superiority would simply perpetuate the evil of American military strength. Thank goodness we have a commander in chief with the foresight to make sure that we will be on par with even second rate air forces. Lord knows the Danish know their fighters.

[celmak]

"The military-industrial complex?"

Where have I heard this before???