How is the DoD’s decision to go from a 110 per year plan to a 80 per year plan? This loss of Economy of Scale had a huge affect on the annual price of the F-35A.

This is just one example of how the DoD directly effected the price of the F-35 negatively.

Because LM was asking more than an arm and a leg for every subsequent lot! (i really don’t want to start looking for the prices of the first lots, but everyone knows it was a LOT, and much more than expected- i’m sure you have the figures in front of you as you are so intimate with this program). How many times LM asked for more money for the program BEFORE the US DoD started reducing it’s orders? How much behind and problematic (which required more money to solve ) was the program BEFORE the DoD reduced it’s orders?

If you want to blame concurrency again, why LM said they can do it? Even so, you know very well that LM’s design quality even in the initial stages of the program was absymal, remember the thing being 1500lb (or was it more) overweight, right ? IOC 2010, 2011 and 2012 for each version, remember those promises? Or the (very hilarious now) 65 millions per copy? They changed that now though, was it you who said F-35 will start costing 65 millions (yeah right) after the first EIGHT HUNDRED(!) are built, but until then, one has to pay through his bleeding nose for every F-35 (especially challenging for the small “allies” hand-twisted into buying it).

There are some rather stinky issues with this program (and we probably only see the tip of the iceberg), and i’m not saying the above just because i loath you yanks (:p) and want to rain on you parade, anyone with half a brain can see there are some major issues with the F-35. (which can only make yankee loathers like me go lol, to be honest with you :D)

All these potential F-35 buyers are allowed to see only what LM and the US government wants them to see. Which is the bestest and the goodest possible graphs and statistics etc.

Besides, like i was saying, political pressure/blackmail has a big part in the “selection” of the F-35. (hell aparently LM plays the same game internally).

RIP to all lost in this tragedy. Amazing they kept this Dakota going for 68 years.

Like i was saying in another place, someone is getting payed big money to write that utter and total crap, and some are ( unfortunately) paying money to read it! ( dunno how much a JDW issue costs these days)

Amazing. How can one give any credibility to anything they write after rubbish like this. Who knows what else they invented.

And by the way, I have some very reliable information that something akin to “Aurora” was flying around the UK in the early 1990s.

Are you serious or just joking? If you actually mean it, do you know how that thing looks like from your sources? 😮

It would be really, really interesting to see how upgraded legacy Fulcrums, like the RMAF MiG-29N (N-019M and RVV-AE), fare against western aircraft, just to compare them against baseline MiG-29s.

Surely the likes of MiG-29S/SM/SMT can hold their own well against any contemporary technology western fighters (i’m not talking about F-22s here of course).

Some were using the example of ICE phantoms vs legacy MiG-29s to show that even an F-4 has superior SA, conveniently ignoring the fact that the damn things have been UPGRADED with APG-65, AMRAAM and modern RWR and other gear! I wonder if they ever held drills of legacy Phantoms versus the MiG-29s. Would be surprised if the F-4Fs would even knew what hit them.

Were there any exercises between RMAF Su-30MKMs and USN Super Hornets fitted with APG-79? That would another very interesting one to dissect.

Indeed, would be good news for RuAF (and fanboys lol). How many Hellducks are at Voronezh at this time?