{"id":193477,"date":"2008-12-13T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/the-costs-of-ending-f-22-production\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T11:37:00","slug":"the-costs-of-ending-f-22-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/the-costs-of-ending-f-22-production\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of Ending F-22 Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-12-08&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/12\/08\/AW_12_08_2008_p28-103110.xml&amp;headline=USAF+Faces+F-22+Production+Halt+Costs\">some significant costs to canceling the F-22 at just 4 more aircraft<\/a>, (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)  instead of the full 20.<\/p>\n<p>If the US government does not buy the remaining 16, Lockheed could be due $147 million  in cancellation fees.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see&#8230;.16 additional aircraft, costing somewhere between $138 million (Air Force figures) and $300 million (critics figure), instead of paying a penalty of $147 million.<\/p>\n<p>If you canceled the program, and put garlic in its mouth, and a stake through its heart, and burnt it, and took half that money and bought advanced F-16s with EASA radar, like we are selling to&#8230;well, anyone who wants one&#8230;You could have 20 F-16s.<\/p>\n<p>Get out the garlic, rosewood, and torches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that there some significant costs to canceling the F-22 at just 4 more aircraft, (paid subscription required) instead of the full 20. If the US government does not buy the remaining 16, Lockheed could be due $147 million in cancellation fees. Let&#8217;s see&#8230;.16 additional aircraft, costing somewhere between $138 million (Air Force &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193477"}],"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=193477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}