shoot me an email if you can Tyler@jalopnik.com Read more
I have one more to write before I can finalize it. I just don’t want to recreate the wheel over and over. It will be controversial but intriguing I hope. Read more
Really it is! Read more
Complaining, this is a real issue.
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They can bundle it with the upgrade. This is common, look at Taiwan etc. It just makes sense.
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Rationally speaking, we really should not have a choice to not upgrade these jets, but like I said, good luck selling that to the USAF
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This is the cost of new build, not as an upgrade kit.
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The F-16E/F deal was more complex with different systems added. A ton of development dollars and they paid for a lot of development and the cost of first run production. The E/F is largely its own animal.
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Yeah, I do. It is an F-16C/D with major avionics upgrade. F-16C/D Block 50s were like $35M. The Super Hornet with similar avionics is like $55M, with a targeting pod and it is a larger twin engine fighter with naval capability. The high prices you read for export deals usually include spares, training, infrastructure,… Read more
For new build all-up F-16V I have heard is less than half the cost of an F-35. Upgrade kit much less.
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Thanks! Fixed! Read more
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if they exist they would surely be built to isolate the gassed from the storage areas. Read more
Well we will agree to disagree than. Nobody said the Shuttle did not do some good things, and was not a national source of pride. But it failed on delivering what was promised. This is fact. And its high cost kept us from doing other things. Read more
Sure, I agree with that. We have to learn from all this though. Read more
Yes, but how is a space telescope Shuttle specific? Nor does a repair justify the Shuttle’s program cost. I am sorry, but it is what it is. Read more
All emotion! I loved this thing too. But look at the facts: Read more
I was thinking maybe Battlefield LA but that was all USMC no? I can’t remember exactly. Read more
Right, and it was supposed to do so safely, regularly and at low cost. A space taxi into LEO if you will. Never happened. The Shuttle cost and complexity were crushing. Read more
Well we pretty much knew where we stood by the late 1980s. Regardless, we need to learn from this, not live in denial because it makes us feel nostalgic. It is not like I am the only person who has this same POV, but it is fairly common among the scientific and space community. That is unless you made a check from the… Read more