"John Cook" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:29:20 +0200, "Yama"
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"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsA...48cae6b64ef5?t
ype=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4638813
The U.S. Air Force has agreed to buy 22 more F/A-22 fighter jets
from
Lockheed Martin Corp. for less than $110 million per plane, Air
Force
acquisition chief Marvin Sambur told Reuters on Tuesday.

Looks like I was wrong and they've managed to get the F/A-22 costs
under
control after all.

Yes, it's less than 2.5 times more pricy than next most expensive
fighter...

I hope Carlo Kopp reads this. He ensured me that there is absolutely no
reason to think that F-22 will cost more than $70M, and export version is
likely to be much cheaper.

You should read his latest on save the F111!!!!, the whole of the Oz
defence department got the sums wrong on how much the F111 would cost
to maintain, I wonder why they didn't just ask him for his unbiased
and impartioal appraisal...

Is there a link to it?

He is a lunatic, but it is such a grand lunacy.