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Old 28th Aug 2008, 15:43
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"Do you know what the procurement and through life costs of Dave-B are compared to that of Typhoon?"

No, I don't. Neither does Tom Burbage, Gen. Chuck Davis, DSD(AT&L), MOD(A) or OUT(C&A) because (a) Dave has only flown a few dozen hours and (b) its first cousin, the F-22A, is missing its maintenance targets by a large margin, despite much confident briefery in the 1997-2003 timeframe about "this time we've got the LO maintenance issues sorted, honest Guv."
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