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Ecliptik · « **Reply #15 on:** June 27, 2004, 11:20:52 PM »

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Unit cost: Approximately $1.157 billion (fiscal 98 constant dollars) so figure about 1.5 billion now.

That cost is rather inflated, because it's an amortized per-unit cost including research and development of the technology. If the US ordered more of them, they would have cost less, per plane, but they ended up buying a lot less than was originally planned.

GScholz · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2004, 04:41:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
The B-2 was on the drawing boards and in preproduction long before the merger. I followed the merger talks with great anticipation as I own a fair amount of Northrop-Grumman stock, that was all Grumman before the merger.

Ohh the B-2 first deployed in late '93 btw and the companies merged in late 94.

edited for spelling

Of course I could be wrong. Thanks for the info.

kreighund · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2004, 09:06:53 AM »

Yo guys, if you look closely at the movie the "MiGs" have twin enigines...they are F-5Es

The F-20 was killed off by the F-16 mafia....you'll find the F-20s radar used in the Taiwan's Kuo fighter.

Bodhi · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2004, 09:31:55 AM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Of course I could be wrong. Thanks for the info.

~~to you too.~~

Bodhi · « **Reply #19 on:** June 28, 2004, 09:36:47 AM »

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Originally posted by Ecliptik
That cost is rather inflated, because it's an amortized per-unit cost including research and development of the technology. If the US ordered more of them, they would have cost less, per plane, but they ended up buying a lot less than was originally planned.

Yeah, I was wrong on that figure, it's more like 1.35 billion this year.

use this to adjust cost, it works well....

http://www.bls.gov/bls/inflation.htm