Originally Posted by
rattman
No every time an australian defence procurment comes up. Thats lifetime project costs (or as my company calls it in the civilian world "whole life cost accounting"), to covers the full project so airframes + estimated spares + new facilites / possible field upgrades + maintainence contracts.
As this is a FMS sale its costs australia the exact same price as it would cost the DOD
https://www.cipfa.org/policy-and-gui...e-life-costing
That's not how FMS works.