Originally Posted by
Beamr
Regarding the swiss statement of price; as Finns are having the HX tender for up to 64 fastjets to replace aging F/A-18's and final offers are out, Lockheed Martin stated last month that their offer for Finland includes up to 64 F-35's for the 10bn limit (including weapons systems etc). In essence, you'll get a F35 with the same price as super hornet, Saab, Rafale, eurofighter et al. So with the swiss news it seems the F-35 prices are coming down. Someone somewhere wants to get them out of the factory.
Hmmmmm.......
LM haven't done a search through their old Lockheed company archive's for a folder marked "Big brown envelope F-104 sales proceedures" have they...
