F/A-22 cost falls to LCS levels.

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:29:20 +0200, "Yama" wrote:


"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsA...toryID=4638813
The U.S. Air Force has agreed to buy 22 more F/A-22 fighter jets from
Lockheed Martin Corp. for less than $110 million per plane, Air Force
acquisition chief Marvin Sambur told Reuters on Tuesday.

Looks like I was wrong and they've managed to get the F/A-22 costs under
control after all.

Yes, it's less than 2.5 times more pricy than next most expensive fighter...

I hope Carlo Kopp reads this. He ensured me that there is absolutely no
reason to think that F-22 will cost more than $70M, and export version is
likely to be much cheaper.

I don't think there will be an "export version". The only country that I believe
we would entrust the tech with would be the UK, and they are not in the
market (at least for now).

Al Minyard