Why don’t you ask the Pagot fellow to write another article claiming that the budget doesn’t line up with an unrelated contract announcement and then we can all chip in and make corrections on the fly.

Because there are other topics but F-35 lots costs? I do not understand what made you so upset in this article. More or less a listing of LRIP effective contract and subcontracts with very few comments… The fact that there were LRIP11 lonfg lead items within LRIP 7 do not change that they were part of LRIP7 contract. Or should one add them to LRIP 11?

yep, which we ‘re leading along with BAE systems.

$780 mil this year vs $404 mil last year for the F-35A

Err you sure?

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $1,377,002,000 advance acquisition contract for long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 130 low-rate initial production Lot 12 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participants, and foreign military sales customers. In addition this contract provides long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 110 Lot 13 and 14 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the non-U.S. DoD participants and foreign military sales customers.

Spudman, these numbers do not fit with comptroller numbers http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/183906/pentagon-fy-2018-budget-shows-no-drop-in-f_35-costs.html see page 1-7

With all due respect, the problem is not about rounded (in fact curved) shapes. It is with regularly curved (constant radius) shape. see B2 e.g.