Originally Posted by
IFEZ
Lancair70 yes the F22 is an awesome machine. But it proved too expensive even for the Yanks! With a unit cost North of $300M even they couldn't afford it. Still, maybe 24 of them would be better value for money than 72 of what we're about to be saddled with
I don't think we need the F-35,s money could have been better spent on more super Hornets, but typical useless Australian Government always wanting to keep up with the yanks. By the time we take full ownership of them the Government that placed the order are no longer in office and its the new government that's to got deal with the problems. The same with the Eurocopter Tiger, we have had them for about 10 years now and still not up to 100% capability, we should have gone for track proven Apache.