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To: OCC

The cost of the F-35 is 191 million dollars and climbing. The Dutch left the program because of the cost.


16 posted on 07/12/2010 6:28:06 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove

Your figures don’t add up and unless you have an extremely credible source for that figure, I wouldn’t use it. Right now, I don’t know that any of the players have a reliable cost.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/03/19/339714/f-35-cost-estimate-grows-up-to-nearly-90.html

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/asd/2010/03/12/01.xml

And if you don’t mind, post your source stating the Dutch have “left the program”. I found one article from Dutch News on 29 June and it appears that at the time (2 weeks ago) they hadn’t made a decision and another at what appears to be a blog, but a pretty well referenced one. That’s not saying they won’t quit, I can’t find any evidence that they have.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/06/pulling_out_of_jsf_threatens_s.php

http://sites.google.com/a/greateryuma.org/jsf/project-updates


21 posted on 07/12/2010 6:47:46 PM PDT by SZonian (We began as a REPUBLIC, a nation of laws. We became a DEMOCRACY, majority rules. Next step is?)
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