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In reply to the discussion: Air Force investing $12B in F-15s [View all]sir pball
(4,794 posts)35. The Raptor is only $150M flyaway cost.
Building one F-22A costs 150mil on its own. Not cheap, but comparable to a lot of last-generation fighters.
The ludicrous $300M+ OVERALL unit cost is because we spent a metric shitton of money (though still not as much as the -35) to develop it, so when we add the R&D budget in, the paltry number of birds we actually built end up being farcically expensive because we have to factor in the R&D. But since, unlike the -35, that's finished, it's actually cheaper by $10M a unit to buy new Raptors over Silent Eagles.
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I'm guessing because replacing them with brand new F-15 SEs would cost more than upgrading
PersonNumber503602
Sep 2016
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