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Originally Posted by New Era
The US government gave both Lockheed and Boeing $750M to develop their prototypes for the award of the contract. Both companies brought their functional concept airframe to the table for demonstration. This was to reduce the T&E expense, which the US government is known to get crazy with, and why over-runs are so extreme. The US government should learn the definition of the term scope creep, because this is where costs and redesign go through the roof.
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Yeah $750M for demonstrators sounds more realistic, there's still a ton of work that needs to be done after that even without scope creep, and scope creep and redesign are definitely are killers, as is program freezes/suspensions I've been reading (like if a program is paused for lack of funding too).
The Typhoon's development costs are said to be $5B euros.