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Didn't the US spend something like $1 trillion over a decade to develop this plane? I remember reading stories for years about how expensive it was. So maybe
by jononomo 4y ago
Didn't the US spend something like $1 trillion over a decade to develop this plane? I remember reading stories for years about how expensive it was. So maybe Finland is reaping the benefits of the extravagant development costs that the US sunk into this fighter. Also, the other contenders don't have stealth capabilities, which seems to be an obvious reason for not winning the contract.
- mrep 4y agoNo, the 1.5 trillion dollar number everybody loves to quote is in 2070 then year dollars and is the total cost of the program which includes design, acquisition, operations and maintenance for making and using a lot of planes (~2,300) over the next ~50 years.