Re:U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
by bpodgursky on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:10PM
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No, it's 2 F35s. Unit cost will be a bit under 100mm each.
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Re:U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
by trendia on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:23PM
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Does that price include oxygen? Not all of them do [0].
[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/f35_pilots_report_h...
Re:U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
by tbihl on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:53AM
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You'd like to think they'd investigate why some of their new planes cause hypoxia. Unfortunately, the scale of the problem makes it easier to try to understand why one variant (Marine Corps) ISN'T having the problem.
https://news.usni.org/2017/06/14/aviation-leaders-still-unsu...
Re:U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
by dekhn on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:56AM
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Unit costs can only be determined after enough runs permit you to take the spent budget and divide by the number of units built. What you're describing is a projection and it only holds if the full run is built. If it gets cut short, the unit costs are higher because of the non-recoverable costs.