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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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here's the sentence which interested me most hahaha inside
US Army plans to field a future long-range assault helicopter by 2030
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"While most of the cost requirements are not made public in the RFI, the Army does note that it wants an aircraft that is roughly $43 million per unit."
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Jura said:
US Army needs another year to pick protection system for Stryker
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gee, it took less than one year since the invasion of Normandy to the surrender in Reims
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Germany was fighting a war on two fronts it's Airforce was broken and it's Navy never really left port. Its army was using a mix of equipment pulled from a dozen nations and it never had secure national resources. There forces were exhausted, killed, sick/ wounded, captured or being used to guard concentration camps.
Germany never really stood a chance once the allied forces got to speed in on either world war.

At the same time @Jura it took the US Army 3 years to develop the Persing Heavy tank from paper to prototype to field. And that was a tank that could give the Styker lessons on being troubled. A years evaluation is about the norm... actually pretty fast for the Army.
 
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Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.
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One of the senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the count said that Pakistan invited the United States to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalized. Generally in such agreements, the United States requires the receiving country to allow U.S. officials to inspect the equipment regularly to ensure it is accounted for and protected.

Some of the aircraft were not immediately available for inspection due to the conflict, so it took U.S. personnel several weeks to account for all of the jets, the official said.

But now the count has been completed, and “all aircraft were present and accounted for,” the official said.
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Evidence suggests that Pakistan’s F-16s were involved in the battle. The remnants of a U.S.-made AIM-120 air-to-air missile was found near the site; out of all the aircraft involved, only the F-16 can shoot such a weapon.

When the incident occurred, India
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the U.S. government to investigate whether Pakistan’s use of the F-16 against India violated the terms of the foreign military sale agreements.

However, the first defense official said the agreement did not involve any terms limiting the use of the F-16s.

“It would be incredibly naive for us to believe that we could sell some type of equipment to Pakistan that they would not intend to use in a fight,” the official said.
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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Unit cost of an AH64E was around $35.5 Million so that's not a huge jump.
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LOL the wording inside 36 minutes ago

is "the Army does note that it wants an aircraft that is roughly $43 million per unit."

so you may ask yourself a question

What Did The USAF Around 2005 Want The Price Of The F-35 To Be?

Wednesday at 8:31 PM
Jura said:
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noticed this:
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it's indeed at p. 27 of
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which I've now downloaded

EDIT
as for Lot 9, May 30, 2017
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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Yes want but the future is fluid.
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after almost six years of watching, it's, you know, fun to see how the Pentagon tries to kid the public with statements like "the Army does note that it wants an aircraft that is roughly $43 million per unit."

TerraN_EmpirE said:
Years ago the Army wanted the RAH66 Comanche and thought that was the future... and it went wrong.
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I heard even I hadn't been watching at that time
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
It's not "Kidding" the public it's listing a optimistic cost estimate.
Everyone does that.
Assuming the program does well it's possibly a fair one too. The current unit price of a UH60 was around 21 million but these would be more advanced than that design.
But He who looks into Crystal balls eats glass shards.
You cannot predict the final price of sophisticated military equipment that hasn't been built.
 
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