Short recollections throughout this thread! None of these figures applied in the seductive year of 2001 with Angus and John. Quite a difference. How things evolve!
as I said it's not our first BBQ, the price hasn't doubled yet, like it did with the fa-18ab, we have never increased our budget for the f-35a it has always been $16b for 100
I'll let you have the fun of looking at the f-111 price creep, but if you have trouble finding it
1965 Initial contract target price $2,067.2
Current contract target price $4,657.1
Government estimate of price at completion $5,344-o
australia placed order in 1963
@LO,
USN hasn't had any interest in the uprated engine for the SH, that's been offered for ages and they still don't, nor have they any interest in the proposed changes to the SH, or they would fund it
the wing issue of the f-35c was known since the wind tunnel tests, if it was a no-go they would have said so 10 years ago and handed it back to the engineers to come up with something else