{"id":192653,"date":"2009-03-08T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/we-finally-have-a-price-for-the-jsf\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T12:19:00","slug":"we-finally-have-a-price-for-the-jsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/08\/we-finally-have-a-price-for-the-jsf\/","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Have a Price for the JSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The catch? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A16a03fd2-3fb1-4714-9129-f12cd87a8a5a\">Engines are not included<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s a $70 million (A-model) or $80 million (B-model) paperweight.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s clear.<\/p>\n<p>As Bill Sweetman notes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\n<li>The Norwegians think it&#8217;s $52M.<\/li>\n<li>The Israelis think it&#8217;s +$100M.<\/li>\n<li>The Dutch think it&#8217;s \u20ac56M.<\/li>\n<li>The Danes think it&#8217;s $82M with spares and training.<\/li>\n<li>Davis thinks it&#8217;s $70M for an F-35A in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Davis thinks it&#8217;s $70M for a F-35C without engine in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Davis thinks it&#8217;s $80M for a F-35A in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The USAF budget says it&#8217;s $91M flyaway in 2013.<\/li>\n<li>The GAO thinks it&#8217;s $104M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to believe the GAO at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The catch? Engines are not included. So, it&#8217;s a $70 million (A-model) or $80 million (B-model) paperweight. That&#8217;s clear. As Bill Sweetman notes: The Norwegians think it&#8217;s $52M. The Israelis think it&#8217;s +$100M. The Dutch think it&#8217;s \u20ac56M. The Danes think it&#8217;s $82M with spares and training. Davis thinks it&#8217;s $70M for an F-35A in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}