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More F-35s ordered
Key Aero.com ^
| 7/7/2010
| Gary Parsons
Posted on 07/07/2010 4:31:21 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The US Government has awarded Lockheed Martin a $522 million (€414 million) contract to produce 42 low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lot V F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
The contract provides for 22 conventional take off and landing (CTOL) F-35As for the US Air Force, 13 short take off and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35Bs for the US Marine Corps and seven carrier variant (CV) F-35Cs for the US Navy.
Work will be co-ordinated at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth plant in Texas with BAE Systems’ facility at Warton in the UK providing 20% of the workshare. Work is expected to be completed in May 2011
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; defns; f35; jsf
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Mr. Mojo; James C. Bennett; mowowie; Captain Beyond; darkwing104; JRios1968; ...
To: sonofstrangelove
THIRTEEN planes for the entire Marine Corps? What is this England?
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posted on
07/07/2010 4:36:18 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(www.jdforsenate.com)
To: omega4179
THIRTEEN planes for the entire Marine Corps? What is this England?
The Dominican Republic.
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posted on
07/07/2010 4:37:08 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/07/2010 5:18:01 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(*)
To: magslinger
To: omega4179
It does say “low-rate initial production”.
To: sonofstrangelove
Well, they are still tooling up for full-rate production. This isn’t unusual. I’m just a little surprised that the LRIP is being spread across all variants. I would have expected that they might delay the ‘B’ for instance.
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posted on
07/07/2010 5:55:23 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Tallguy
To: sonofstrangelove
The 522 million = $12 million a copy. What a tremendous buy. The previous year cost was $254 million per each F-35. Somethings very wrong. Anyone have an idea.
Godspeed
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posted on
07/07/2010 6:28:56 PM PDT
by
thedilg
To: thedilg
Somethings very wrong. Anyone have an idea. I'll take "Reporting" for $200, Alex.
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posted on
07/07/2010 8:34:36 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
To: Tallguy
I would have expected that they might delay the ‘B’ for instance.
IIRC the "B" variant is the one being given priority given the age and capabilities of the AV-8B/Harrier GR.9 force and the draw down of the Legacy Hornet USMC fleet. Of course, since it will be built in far fewer numbers than the other two, it's LRIP numbers are correspondingly smaller.
The "C" variant should be given high priority as well, given the extent to which the Legacy Bugs are trapping out. Fleet units have been swapping out Charlies for Alphas for years now to take to sea birds that can safely land, and there are units (particularly with the Marines) that are going to cadre status because Hornets are in shorter supply and the units slated for CVN deployment need them too badly.
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