Credit: Eurofighter
Air Forces Acquiring Fewer Fighters As Prices Rise -- Aviation Week
Leaders of smaller air forces are worried that they could be priced out of flying fighter aircraft by rising acquisition and operational costs, and countries that once fielded large forces are recognizing that they cannot cover all their historic missions as they switch to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
That program's leaders admit that the F-35's projected operational costs are not affordable—while promising to bring them down—but one major U.S. contractor has broken ranks and challenged the value of the Pentagon's huge investment in radar cross-section (RCS) reduction, the JSF's dominant technology.
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My Comment: What you pay is what you get .... more so now when it comes to purchasing jet fighters than anything else.
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