A summary of LRIP 5 shows this.
$138M 10May10 Long-lead-engines (then 42)
$522.5M 6Jul10 Long-lead items (then 42)
$4012M 9Dec11 Airframes (30) (TBD,defined EOY 2012 [32]*)
$485M 27Dec11 Non-recurring requirements
$1122M 27Dec11 Engines (TBD,defined EOY 2012)
$56.3M 13Mar12 Sustainment
$127.7M 14Dec12 Required to define end of year airframe order
$6463.5M -- Total
What is in bold should have been updated with an official defined DOD contract at the end of 2012.
And what was previously mentioned:
*Aviation Week predicts this contract (now for 32 F-35s) will be for $3800M, which if true (when the pending contract is announced) will put current LRIP-5 procurement at $6251.5M. This will change again once a defined contract for the jet-engines is released.
Most curious.
4 comments:
The cost of this lemon will keep on soaring higher and higher, it will never be reduced when the production line increases.
Amy Butler over at Aviation Week is still talking out of that thing she keeps putting her head up!
Peter, you obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about. What you are saying is total rubbish!
Your numbers are some way off.
It's already $7.1+ billion for LRIP 5, pending final engine contract:
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/feature/141238/**f_35-lot-5-unit-costs-exceed-%24223m.html
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