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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by greedo on Monday May 07, 2012 @11:36AM (#3939418)
The F-22 doesn't cost anywhere near $2billion dollars per plane.
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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by pilom on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:45PM (#3940072)
I stand corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor. If you divide the number of aircraft built by the amount spent on the program, the GAO puts that at $412 million per plane. You can still buy more than 3 F-35's for each F-22.
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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by philwelch on Monday May 07, 2012 @03:47PM (#3940636)
That's not the marginal cost per plane, because that amortizes the cost of R&D over the current production run. If you ordered more F-22's, they would cost far less since the R&D is already done.
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