�70,000 – It’s what it costs to fly mate, take away any of those things an it sits on the runway or in a hanger. You an others don’t like it, we know that but not everything in life is wonderful. And sure the cost will come down over time, in line with the other jets, and did you see how much they cost per hour? More than the F-35.
I didn’t state anything about liking nor disliking, you don’t like it because a couple of us pointed something obvious out that you failed to simply read. Unlike you, I seen the costs per hour for the Tornado GR4, Tornado F3, Harrier GR7/9 – £35,000, £43,000 and £37,000 respectively. So lets say, for example, £39,000 on average, give or take, what the running costs of Typhoon are expected to come down to once sufficient numbers are in operational service, as the NAO report suggests. Taken into account the F-35 is far from being completed, is still very much in it’s development stage, has technical and costs issues that are yet to be resolved (which will affect the overall programme costs and cost per unit), a number of units which are yet to be determined by the British MoD and keeping in mind which will also have to go through the same process as Typhoon is going through, or any other aircraft for that matter, and have rather high initial running costs, i.e. due to forward and depth servicing, fuel costs, crew costs, training costs, cost of capital charge, depreciation and amortisation… what will the average running costs per hour be for the F-35B in UK service, bearing in mind that particular variant is much more complex machine than the ‘A’ and ‘C’ variants & the Typhoon?
If you can answer that then I’m sure you’d make many F-35 customers more confident.
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