Sure, P-8 would get a lot of orders in addition to USN plus India currently.
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Plenty of non-US AF still have them in service, for example Iran is/was using theirs against ISIS.
So P-8A is more expensive but cheaper to operate. But wait, according to you, you need MQ-4C Triton to do the low-attitude BAMS duties for P-8A. Get it. So how much does each Triton costs? $140 Million. Gee. Isn’t that the same ballpark as a Kawasaki P-1? The secret is to keeping P-8A O&M cost low is by spend extra…
It’s really depends on how they plan on ulitlizing their MPA.
They have/had about 90 P-3 Orion. They may only ordered “a few dozen” officially now, but everybody expected those P-1 to be as close to 1-for-1 replacement for P-3 eventually. That’s not that much less compares to the 120 P-8 total USN plans on ordering. And as already pointed out, a lot of the costs are shared with…
A quick google told me that the other bidder is Italian Fincantieri at £675million to build the ships in UK over Daewoo’s bid of £452million. So we do know they do not go for “built in UK” at any cost.
Civilian Boeing 737’s list price is about $100 million each. So the mission equipments/integration accounts for the extra $140 million in P-8’s cost. Just like F/A-18E/F are budgeted for $70 million each, while EA-18G on the same airframes are budgeted for $100 million each for the latest batch. Maybe Kawasaki’s…
Bud didn’t MoD ordered tankers from South Korean Daewoo for Royal Navy?
From Tyler’s article itself
I was just reminded by today’s accident that Greece F-16 took out, 6-8 NATO jets in Spain. With allies like this, who needs enemies?
Putting money into (relatively speaking) cheap F-15 attack craft which cost $100M a pop vs. F22 ($160M) is a genuine argument—especially because the F22 is not comparatively optimized for a ground attack role, and many of its stealth technology advantages are wasted against a technologically inferior opponent.
Exactly. GCC countries are investing in legacy US fighters because they know domestic US politic means US congress won’t approve F-35 sales to them until after Israel get them. That’s why KSA is buying F-15SA, UAE F-16 Block 60/61 and Kuwait F-18E/F.
Since we are talking about GCC instead of KSA in particlar. UAE are getting Air Tractor AT-802 based light attack aircraft.
Did you bothered to read what Tyler wrote at the end of the article?
USAF have F-16CJ as its “First Day” SEAD asset. They work well together as a combo. Better than just using EF-111A alone.
What’s interesting is that JMSDF are adding their long-range AAM on their Kawasaki P-1 MPA, its replacement of P-3C Orion, as more than self-defense measure.
if you don’t really need competitive maneuverability, than why do we need a fighter at all?
They did ordered 24 South Korean KAI T/FA-50 in additon to Russian Su-25.