Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract falls short

Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by dmoy on Thursday November 25, 2021 @10:11PM (#29347196)

The plane being over budget for the US doesn't necessarily affect the unit cost going forward though.

For a specific example here, the F-35, which costs more than the F-18, is still cheaper than the Gripen, which is still in contention for this bid.

In fact of the three planes remaining, the F-18 was the cheapest. The only remaining planes are substantially more expensive.

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Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by mthoms on Thursday November 25, 2021 @10:29PM (#29347278)

As I understand it, The Gripen has a much lower operating cost than the others [0].

At any rate, I never said cost was the only factor - only that it was an important (read: non-arbitrary) one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Usability_a...

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Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by sudosysgen on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:07PM (#29347400)

The F-35, if not localized, is slightly more expensive than a localized Gripen, yes. However it will cost much more to maintain in the future.

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Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by nickff on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:29PM (#29347494)

Maintain, almost certainly, but sustainment costs could be higher for the Gripen. They’ve only made 270 Gripens, so any upgrades will be amortized over a smaller installed base.

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Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by sudosysgen on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:29AM (#29347709)

I don't think that Canada will need or go for any updates beyond weapon integration anyways.

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Re:Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract fall... by nickff on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:20PM (#29354238)

The CF-18 got two rounds of modernizations, so I’d assume any replacement that served for a similar period of time would get at least one.

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