Originally Posted by JSFfan
what is skewing the numbers for the taxpayer on contracts and budgets is that a lot of long term costs are paid at the LRIP stage and if you divide that price between the LRIP tails. It gives a false price. There is a lot of stuff that needs to be divided between all the tails built, some 2,000+
Can you give a particular example?
NITRO104, the SAR takes it to PAUC,
Indeed, so why claiming URF and NRF and total flyaway being 'standard'?
As to lifetime cost, the good news that Sweetman won't tell you is that the lifetime costs have been reduced by 40% from 1.1 Trillion to some 800 billion
He doesn't need to, if the rest of the media already covered the issue.
What's your point?