Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
I started out with...
If we were determined to build our own new design, doing it the way I outlined could be the cheapest. Particularly as an awful lot of the man power (training, etc) and systems costs (we'd be reusing the designs we've already got) would be tiny.
Obviously if we were not interested in owning the design then buying off the peg is going to be cheaper still. But then we'd have no control over it.
Spot on
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Look at the F-35 program for further clarification.......how obsolete [in the broadest sense] will it be when it finally gets on the carrier and how will we be able to materially offset this..we won't.