via Defense Watch (a Canadian Defense oriented blog).
This is a reduction of 219 planned purchases, which brings the numbers down to 2,921 F-35s.Read it all here.
A drop in that number of aircraft results in a $525.6 increase to Canada for a potential acquisition. If we only now have a $342 million acquisition contingency, this means we are now over $9 billion.
The number of current lost orders is bigger than that. Note: a fuzzy promise years out to make total numbers good doesn't count. This from over a year ago: http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/f-35-production-cut-update.html
ReplyDeleteyeah you're right. they keep reprogramming it to hide the truth. the reality is so stark it hurts. i can't believe the Pentagon is actually do this crap.
Deleteits already in the middle of a death spiral, they're just playing accounting tricks with us to hide the fact.
but it sucks worse for the Marine Corps. consider this. the Marines bought British Harriers in case the F-35 was cancelled. this was during a time when the Royal Navy was actually talking about making the carriers that they were building helicopter carriers.
so that means that the USMC had a plan B, in case the program died. ok. but what makes it worse is the fact that the MPC has been cancelled, the AAV upgrade delayed along with the ACV. additionally even the JLTV (which I'm not a fan of) is even threatened. its amazing. we not only wasted time but money too. Amos needs to go.
A minor tweaking of the tax-code and we'll get this paid...
ReplyDeleteHowever, you vote for the wrong crowd and you gets whats you gets.
Foreign orders are both low AND slow, and both add to cost. Why are they slow? F-35 testing and software development are way behind schedule, which is bound to delay production and deliveries, thus increasing cost
ReplyDeleteCanada news report:
Canada was on track for the delivery of four F-35 fighters in 2017. However, a review by the Department of National Defence reported to the Canadian Parliament that a delay of a year would cost an additional $430 million to the total cost of acquisition, tagged at $9 billion.
Why would you want to buy it now? I have been saying for awhile now that South Korea should wait, I am sure that other countries are thinking the same way, let someone else,i.e. US taxpayer fix this mess and delay,delay,delay orders....also sure seems to me we keep hearing about Block 3 being combat ready and seems Block 5 has continually been pushed back....
ReplyDeleteAs the price of the F-35 keeps jacking up, your gona see more and more countries backing away and looking for F-35 like and F-35 Alternatives.
ReplyDeletewhat alternative?
DeleteA Swedish F-16-lite?
The 100 million dollar Typhoon?
The Rafale with it's sky high maintenance costs?
The Super Duper Hornet? (still a prototype)
Russian jets (good joke)
There IS NO F-35 alternative in the West.
Sky high maintenance cost of Rafale : I would say NOT CAMOFLED operating cost of rafale :
Deletehttp://www.stratpost.com/gripen-operational-cost-lowest-of-all-western-fighters-janes
It's normal that it over F16 and Gripen ( we have better to compare with Gripen NG ??) but according to jane's, it's smaller than F18 ! And you don't know yet the maintenance cost of ultra hornet( including over the top paint).
Plus I can bet you the price of Rafale can be divided by 2 if USN buy it in row... But it will never happend, no US senator is elected for France ^^ And In our country, Businessmens go to jail if they corrupt foreign govenments ..