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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Yeah but isn't there nuance in time of purchase/volume pricing/interest rates? And as for operating costs what are the other countries you mentioned?
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Possibly, with the F-35 as they've gotten orders, as they've fullfilled orders the price tag for the jets has slid down not up.
Canada's weak loonie certainly has an effect though. I left out all operating costs, because frankly the 19 billion is for the planes, facilities upgrades, training and I think initial weapons loads etc. Same as the other ones that I put in.
The overall cost of this is about I think 70 billion over the life of the F-35, the estimated flight costs etc would be pretty similar.
When Harper bought the jets the A variant was about $175 million + (going off of memory)
The current expected cost per plane provided by Lockheed Martin for just the plane has dropped to about $89 million. Then you add on the other initial purchase prices that I talked about previously.