Forum: F-35 Lightning II

Last edited by maus92 on Sep 29, 2010 - 07:48 PM; edited 1 time in total

DoD just awarded a contract to purchase 124 F/A-18E/F/G for 5.4b, an average cost of $42.7m each.

http://www.defense.gov//contracts/contr ... actid=4376

The price does not include the engines.

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Wow, 58 Growlers. That's almost half the buy.

Maus, FYI this is the F-35/F-22 forum. Navigate yourself around the site a bit and you'll see where to post accordingly. Smile

No probs..

As far as this newly re-negotiated 'fixed' contract goes though, we'll probably have to wait and see the details in the Feb2011 FY12 defense budget release, to better assess the actual contract in totality.

In a way this does pertain to the F-35 program. Although I just looked fast at the whole article, it doesn't mention anything about F-35 programs related to the aircraft or support of it. Since the Navy is purchasing these 124 aircraft in the very near future, how will this impact F-35 production and quantities for the Navy? I can understand replacing legacy Hornets and Prowlers but hope it doesn't cut back on the F-35 numbers at the same time.

The Navy has a vaccuum to fill between now and the F-35's introduction.

StolichnayaStrafer wrote:

In a way this does pertain to the F-35 program. Although I just looked fast at the whole article, it doesn't mention anything about F-35 programs related to the aircraft or support of it. Since the Navy is purchasing these 124 aircraft in the very near future, how will this impact F-35 production and quantities for the Navy? I can understand replacing legacy Hornets and Prowlers but hope it doesn't cut back on the F-35 numbers at the same time.

It won't.

only 43 millon dollars per aircraft?

F-35 LRIP 4 , 76 m per aircraft.
but someone said the 32 F-35s will cost 5 billons, nearly the same as 124 F/A-18E/F/G?

qwe2008 wrote:

only 43 millon dollars per aircraft?

F-35 LRIP 4 , 76 m per aircraft.
but someone said the 32 F-35s will cost 5 billons, nearly the same as 124 F/A-18E/F/G?

$43 millon per aircraft sounds very cheap to me, as we are talking Block II + aircraft here as well

geogen wrote:

Maus, FYI this is the F-35/F-22 forum. Navigate yourself around the site a bit and you'll see where to post accordingly. Smile

No probs..

As far as this newly re-negotiated 'fixed' contract goes though, we'll probably have to wait and see the details in the Feb2011 FY12 defense budget release, to better assess the actual contract in totality.

Maybe this will help tie things together:

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... irali.html

Still, this is only tangentially related to the F-35. The news is about the Super Hornet that only mentions the F-35... if this is included, we might as well open it up to every Golden Eagle or Eurofighter discussion in existence because those are also competitors to the F-35.

IMH, this is definitely borderline, especially since you titled it "F/A-18 News" and don't even mention the F-35 in your post...

Anyway, the low price is interesting more in terms of it being way, way below other 4.5th Gen fighters. What's the Eurofighter now? $110 million- or is that pounds?
Is the Super Hornet cheaper than the F-35? Yeah, duh. It's an older airplane designed with a huge emphasis on cost, with adequate but not stellar performance.

Prinz_Eugn wrote:

Still, this is only tangentially related to the F-35. The news is about the Super Hornet that only mentions the F-35... if this is included, we might as well open it up to every Golden Eagle or Eurofighter discussion in existence because those are also competitors to the F-35.

IMH, this is definitely borderline, especially since you titled it "F/A-18 News" and don't even mention the F-35 in your post...

Anyway, the low price is interesting more in terms of it being way, way below other 4.5th Gen fighters. What's the Eurofighter now? $110 million- or is that pounds?
Is the Super Hornet cheaper than the F-35? Yeah, duh. It's an older airplane designed with a huge emphasis on cost, with adequate but not stellar performance.

+1 on every point , you've said it all far better than I could too.

qwe2008 wrote:

only 43 millon dollars per aircraft?

F-35 LRIP 4 , 76 m per aircraft.
but someone said the 32 F-35s will cost 5 billons, nearly the same as 124 F/A-18E/F/G?

That's flyaway cost for the Super Hornets. The F-35s aren't 4x as expensive, there's just other costs included in that $5B.

qwe2008 wrote:

only 43 millon dollars per aircraft?

F-35 LRIP 4 , 76 m per aircraft.
but someone said the 32 F-35s will cost 5 billons, nearly the same as 124 F/A-18E/F/G?

That $43M is CFE only -- iow, it doesn't include engines, T-pods, EW suite etc.