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Old November 8th 03, 05:58 AM
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

I know this for a fact: for the price the US was willing to sell and
sustain, you could buy and fly two Eurofighters for one F-22.


Which is pretty much exactly what I was claiming.

...as opposed to the insane "six to one" cost ratio claimed by someone
earlier in the thread.

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A GAO report put the price of a single F-22 at $200m with no parts, weapons
or servicing, if production is capped at the current rate, for a total of 70
aircraft. Which, if they do want the F-35, it might well be.

Weirder things have happened ... they did scrap Crusader, after all.

Matt