Thomas Schoene wrote:


I don't think you know what you're talking about. Boeing's commercial
developments are all predicated on very *large* production runs, at least in
comparison to possible exports of your notional F-32. For example, they
just launcheed development of the 7E7, at an estimated $7-10 billion, which
is not quite a "bet-the-company" program, but not far from it. They project
a market of 2,500-3,000 aircraft in this size class, and hope to take
significantly more than half of them. So they are talking about selling
over 1,500 aircraft to make this a viable project. The worldwde market for
a strike fighter like the F-32 would be far lower (hundreds at most), even
if it wasn't totally closed out by the F-35 and European competitors.


Boeing doesn't have that kind of money. Half of the Boeing 7E7
development money comes from partners in Japan, Italy, USA etc. For
example Japanese companies are developing the wing for Boeing 7E7.