Re-read the ******* post, oldnotbold!
AUSTRALIA will pay a "fly away" price of less than $60 million each for up to 100 of the world's most advanced stealth fighter jets.
Yes, that is a "without engines or radar" cost, but read further down:
Israel last week said it was buying 20 JSFs for a total outlay of $2.75 billion or about $140 million each based on an initial fly-away cost of $92 million, the same figure as early Australian aircraft.
That "$140 million each" includes airfield modifications, ground support equipment, initial spares, and other "start-up costs"!!!!
Also figure in that those are Australian dollars, since the link was from an Australian news paper!
The Canadians just signed a contract for 65 F-35A... for C$138 million per total (US$130 million), and their Defense Minister said that Canadian dollar figure includes other costs like training, improvements to airbases as well as simulators.
NO MORE THAN C$90 million (US $85 million) of that was for the actual aircraft, everything else was those "start-up" costs I mentioned above.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/bu...hter.html?_r=1