Thomas Schoene wrote:
Note that this cost is for all five "spirals" which include a lot more than
just air-to-ground modifications and run well past the current budget cycle.
It's not clear that this is an increase per se, since life-cycle
modernization is always planned and seldom part of the initial budget.

Which is why The Force should sell this as an additional feature set
with a new designation (is F/A-22C already taken still?) and then make
the case for the three versions of the F/A-22 separately.

Air to Air dominator.
Close Air Support expert.
and Super Weasel.

And then they can lay out the development cost for each and the refit
costs to bump each plane up to the new versions.

-HJC