Russian Aerospace Forces to Receive 400 Planes, Helicopters Annually Until 2025

Russian Aerospace Forces will receive about 400 planes and helicopters per year in accordance with the new state armaments program for 2018-2025, Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said.

What consitutes the majority of the aircraft deliveries? BMPD has the number of combat aircraft delivered declining since 2014.
http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2358587.html

Da@n Russian hackers! First the US presidental election, now the Pak-Fa thread. Obviously joking. Did anyone contact the admin to see what happened to the thread?

And what of the PAUC equivalent for the Rafale? Go look it up, program cost divided by units. Then come back here and reflect on “hiding” costs.

Don’t claim hidden costs when there are extensive reports on the cost of weapon systems released by the DoD, instead you should be looking at your own nation’s opaque methodology. Glass houses…

Program acquisition cost is different from other costing methodologies. Can include Milcon, upgraded equipment, related to project. The more mature the program, the lower the procurement costs reflected in the program acquisition cost… usually. The SAR reports give unit costs in both program acquisition unit cost (roughly same as PAC + RDT&E/ units, but usually an estimate in TY dollars in SAR reports) and average procurement unit costs.

The program acquisition costs aren’t really an accurate reflection of unit costs per se. The SM-6 had an APUC of 4.9 million in TY (2015?) dollars on the latest selected acquisition report, so it’s costs are going down (as you would expect with production ramping up)

Good interview indeed. I don’t think the F-104 had anymore accidents than other combat aircraft of era and generation. An aircraft I like a lot, along with many other Century series aircraft.

It would seem there were a combination of factors given for the F-104’s attrition rate in German service:

Lack of high performance lead in trainers, many pilots converted from F-84 to F-104.
Training was situated at Luke AFB, a far cry from flying in Europe.
Poorly trained Conscripts ground crew
The mission itself- Luftwaffe pilots were renowned/notorious for aggressive low level flying.

Could be a “pick any, all, or none”, German F-104 attrition rates weren’t outrageous compared to other first time operators of high performance late ’50’s era fighters as you and others have pointed out.