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Old 25th Jul 2004, 05:11
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Ian Corrigible
 
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Thanks, Nick. There was clearly no way the initial acquisition costs could have been the same, so I was trying to understand how the 20 year package could be within 1%, and whether Team Cormorant were given the benefit of the commonality savings by the DND's evaluation team.

(It would be nice to think you could cause 'the competition' pain by buying product at their sub-cost price tag, but the last decade has repeatedly shown that there are players in our industry (primes and subs) who are both willing and - through government support - able to buy market share this way.)

Good luck with the Cyclone (and congratulations on having the foresight to design the S-92's rotor to spin counter-clockwise...!).

I/C
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