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To: PreciousLiberty
It's worth reading one of the responses to your linked article:

Speaking of reading links, I just got around to reading your link in your statement: That entirely remains to be seen. Actually the flyaway cost for the last buy of F-22s was about $140 million per plane.

Here's a quote from further down in that article:

"F-22s are costing these days a little over $200 million each. Period."

18 posted on 02/29/2012 8:52:20 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
""F-22s are costing these days a little over $200 million each. Period."

Which includes program dollars, as opposed to just the cost of the airplane itself - which is the apples-to-apples comparison with the F-35 numbers I provided.

Again, from the article:

In the "Joint Explanatory Statement" accompanying the bill, the House and Senate appropriators specified that $2.907 billion was to be appropriated for 20 F-22s in 2009. The math comes to just about what the Air Force said, $145 million per copy.

19 posted on 02/29/2012 9:23:44 AM PST by PreciousLiberty (Real Hope - Santorum '12!!!)
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