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Originally Posted by New Era
And gain all those high skilled engineering and manufacturing jobs? Plus, doubt it would cost that much.
As it turns out, R&D for the F-35 was $750M.
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Depends on how you want to do the math.
With Canada needing 70ish planes you would need to look at program costs to get the 70th plane. Your 750 million on R+D didn't get the first plane off the assembly line.
If we are going to be subsidizing an industry military aerospace isn't where I would put my dollars. All areospace industry in the world is heavily subsidized. Look at the mess of Bombardier. If we are picking an industry to subsidize let's pick something with less competition