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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
^^^ So with that said, what would it cost to just build our own?
*I'm sure we don't have anything in development, so a crapton but humor me.
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Well lets see, we don't have an existing fighter aerospace industry, we don't have a design in place, most of the good military aero engineers aren't in this country, we don't have the procurement in place for the exotic parts.
It would probably take 10 to 15 years to just go from concept to drawing board to do a limited production run of 60 planes. It would probably cost a billion dollars to build and subsidize the industry. So we would probably have a sticker cost of about 160 million per plane. On top of that the argument of building for export wouldn't carry water since we would be squashed by the major european and American Military aircraft manufacturers.
The day and age of Canada self building military fighters is over and dead.
We'd have better luck in building and exporting naval ships or armored personal carriers or even transport planes.
Just as an addon the Avro Arrow had a per plane estimated cost of 12,500,000 in 1959. Using a inflation calculation that plane would be costed at about 100,000,000 per plane today.