RAAF's cost per flight hour problem

Convert this to Australian dollars and you will see that the RAAF has a serious annual budget sustainment problem.


Cost per flight hour in thousands of dollars (Australian). F-18 source: Australian Defence budget.

The other problem is that the concept of operations for the F-35 will see to it that if it faces emerging threats (and some existing threats) it will get shot down. Not shown here is the aircraft's availability to fly without being already broken.

F-35 reading list.

Australian Defence reading list.

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