(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

[Quintus Fabius]

Wenn das Wörtchen wenn nicht wäre (ich meine das Wörtchen Kosten)

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There have been some wild assertions about F-35 unit cost recently. See the Lockheed claims as reported in Breaking Defense, Defense News and others that we should expect F-35A costs to be $85 million in 2019.

he cost estimates in the NDAA for the cheapest version of the F-35, the Air Force’s F-35A, are the following. (Note these costs as just for production and do not include R&D.)

“The 2014 procurement cost for 19 F-35As will be $2.989 billion. However, we need to add to that the “long lead” money for the 2014 buy that was appropriated in 2013; that was $293 million, making a total of $3.282 billion for 19 aircraft in 2014. The math for unit cost comes to $172.7 million for each aircraft.

To be fully accurate, however, we should add the additional procurement money authorized for “modification of aircraft” for F-35As for 2014; that means $158 million more, bringing the total unit production cost to $181 million per copy.

Meiner Meinung nach hat die F-35 immer noch ein Preis-Leistungs Problem. Sie ist sehr gut, keine Frage, aber sie ist überteuert und die Frage ist, ob man hier nicht an den realen Gegnern vorbei rüstet und ein System einführt, dass man so gar nicht bräuchte und dass deshalb im Laufe der Zeit ohne Effekt von der Weiterentwicklung überholt werden wird.