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originally posted by: Zaphod58
Lockheed and the Pentagon have reached an agreement for Lot 12-14 of F-35 purchases. Beginning in Lot 13, the F-35A, with engine, will be $79.2M. This drops to $77.9M in Lot 14. The total purchase will be for 478 aircraft to all customers, and a total of $34B.
This is a 12% drop in price from Lot 11. The B will see a drop from $108M in Lot 12, to $101M by Lot 14. The C will go from $103M to $94.4M. The breakdown for lot 12 will be 48 As for the USAF, 20 Bs for the USMC, 9 Cs for the USN, 12 As for Norway, 15 As for Australia, 8 As and 2 Bs for Italy, and associated parts and engineering costs.
www.f35.com...
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: stonerwilliam
In 2018 it was $44,000/ flight hour. The aim is $25,000 by 2025, although they'll probably be looking at 2030 or later to get there.
originally posted by: RexKramerPRT
a reply to: stonerwilliam
Decent gear up your way?
So the B model is forcast to be lower than a Typhoon by batch 14 and has substantially lower running costs than a Tornado going off the above quote.
Britain, as an Island, has chosen to have a carrier capability so needed to procure an air wing. As such both needed modernising. We could have chosen to go nuclear if we wanted. As far as I understand our sub reactors are developed and built here. I happen to thing we have a pretty good capability now all things considered
No idea why Musk came into your argument.