Author Topic: One way to play with an $16 mil. plane (Read 634 times)

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #15 on:** September 08, 2007, 03:45:43 PM »

I managed to dig this up: "The price of 300 F-18s after 500 fighters have been procured would average about 5.8M," from
http://www.georgespangenberg.com/vf16.htm

but with the info from this site: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread222426/pg
If you do the math the F-18E/F comes to 95.3 Million per plane.

as a comparision the F-22 comes to 338.4 Million per plane.

All rather cheap compared with the 2+ Billion for the B-2

nirvana · « **Reply #16 on:** September 08, 2007, 04:02:14 PM »

I was thinking about that too, Mac. I believe 6 was the one that went down.

Amazing skill to get it that low.

RTR · « **Reply #17 on:** September 08, 2007, 05:10:30 PM »

When Canada bought 130 F18's back in the early 80's they came out to about $35 million ea. That included spares support etc I believe.

Great airplane, but a bit dated now I suppose.

cheers,
RTR

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #18 on:** September 08, 2007, 05:43:52 PM »

F14 was better and would have been cheaper to upgrade, but still F18 isn't bad, ugly looking though.

evenhaim · « **Reply #19 on:** September 08, 2007, 06:20:30 PM »

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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
F14 was better and would have been cheaper to upgrade, but still F18 isn't bad, ugly looking though.

why do you figure that, f14 was more dated thereyby requirium more numerous upgrades, and at a higher maintenence cost, the 14 is dated, and it was costing 2x as much to maintain them as much as the f18, which is also btw multirole

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2007, 06:38:40 PM »

It would have ended up being cheaper by far to upgrade tomcats than to buy new F18's to replace them. Not to mention the F14 is more capable of doing AG roles and about equal at AA roles. On top of that the F14 has a better saftey record than the F18, which should be more important than cost because, after all someone has to be in this thing when it goes into combat.
Give me 24 hours and I'll have sources to back this up.

Spikes · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2007, 07:09:05 PM »

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Originally posted by evenhaim
why do you figure that, f14 was more dated thereyby requirium more numerous upgrades, and at a higher maintenence cost, the 14 is dated, and it was costing 2x as much to maintain them as much as the f18, which is also btw multirole

Tomcats forever!

F14 had much better fuel than the F18

Wes14 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 08, 2007, 07:13:58 PM »

and in my opinion F-14 looks prettier.

Spikes · « **Reply #23 on:** September 08, 2007, 07:27:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Wes14
and in my opinion F-14 looks prettier.

Yeah? so what if the F14 was dated...

LePaul · « **Reply #24 on:** September 08, 2007, 11:52:26 PM »

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Originally posted by SpikesX
Tomcats forever!

F14 had much better fuel than the F18

Compare maintenance hours required.

Beast of a bird to maintain...but I agree, she's a beaut!

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #25 on:** September 09, 2007, 12:09:04 AM »

The best wway I've ever heard the F14 described was with one word, Sexy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qw6Yw3hmR2M

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2007, 03:12:20 AM »

F-16s arent as expensive as I thought:

Unit cost:

* F-16A/B: 1998USD 14.6 million
* F-16C/D: 1998USD 18.8 million
* F-16E/F: 1998USD 26.9 million
* F-16I: 2006USD ~70 million[15]

Only the Israelis use the I. On another note though, F-16s use block numbers instead of letters indicate specialization, so there could be a big difference in block number price even though it was still an F-16C.

Reschke · « **Reply #27 on:** September 09, 2007, 11:21:44 AM »

I had a friend from college that was a RIO in a Tomcat. They just flat out disappeared and were never seen again. No wreckage or other floaty stuff in the area where they were last seen. This was in late 2001 or early 2002 and they were deployed flying over Afghanistan.

evenhaim · « **Reply #28 on:** September 09, 2007, 11:45:22 AM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
F-16s arent as expensive as I thought:

Unit cost:

* F-16A/B: 1998USD 14.6 million
* F-16C/D: 1998USD 18.8 million
* F-16E/F: 1998USD 26.9 million
* F-16I: 2006USD ~70 million[15]

Only the Israelis use the I. On another note though, F-16s use block numbers instead of letters indicate specialization, so there could be a big difference in block number price even though it was still an F-16C.

thats not the final cost of the I