Saturday, June 8, 2013

Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013



"It is not unreasonable to expect the cost of future F-35s to be about where they are today, averaging more than $200 million per aircraft. It is also reasonable to doubt that F-35 unit costs—for a complete, operable F-35 force—will decline significantly, especially to a point anywhere close to the amounts currently projected for 2018 and beyond, pegged by Bogdan at $85 million."


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Part 1- The new era of F-35 good feelings
Part 2- Alphabet Soup: PAUCs, APUCs, URFs, Cost Variances and Other Pricing Dodges
Part 3- The deadly empirical data
Part 4- Different planes, common problems
Part 5- On final approach to fighter fiscal sanity

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