The numbers are back up to 77 for the F-16’s. Our Eastern neighbour has pushed us to come to this state. I hope we put the order of the J-10’s/F-10’s on a faster rate, We have growing needs. If we do not recieve the AIM-120, this order is not satisfying. For those of you ranting for the AIM-9X, you can forget it. We just recieved 300 new AIM-P/M’s (or something) just last year. The AIM-9X would only raise the burdon being put on our Air Force.
Let me take you guy on a little math lesson.
1 F-16 costs 45 million.
We are getting 77 F-16’s
45,000,000 x 77 = 3,465,000,000
1 AIM-120 costs 300,000
each of our F-16’s should carry 2 AIM-120’s
77 x 2 = 154 , 154 AIM-120’s aren’t enough because we need spares and others…So we will probably have about 170-190 AIM-120’s (note i am trying to make a realistic scenario)
180 AIM-120’s cost 5.4 million
3,465,000,000 (the cost of our F-16’s)
+ 5,400,000 (Our 180 AIM-120’s)
————–
3,470,400,000 The total cost of our order.
It says 3.5 billion is the max cost of our order from all the credible information. SO the rest 30 million would probably be used on other things. Probably the exact cost of the F-16’s would fill in that 30 million but since i dont know. WHAT CAN I DO? 😀
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