This is addition to those they recently ordered:
Graff
Norway's parliament authorised the government to purchase another six Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets for about 4 billion crowns ($654.7 million), the parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee said on Wednesday.Good news for the program and an indicator that any hesitation by Norway about the F-35 seems to have passed.
The six jets, to be delivered in 2018, bring the Norwegian order to 16 planes ...
Norway plans to buy a total of 52 F-35s by the end of 2024, but purchases for each year have to be separately approved by parliament.
Graff
Why would any country purchase airplanes of a type that's still in development, with unsatisfactory reports on program management, quality control, reliability, performance and cost?
ReplyDeleteDon Bacon knows all about the F-35 program, must have slipped a trojan on LM's super-duper hidden F-35 spy on me server so he gets all the real dope. Careful Don, you might get yourself slapped with ITAR violations for all the inside stuff you have mastered.
ReplyDeleteF-35 will be a hot seller for the next few years, especially as the Asians see a very unpleasant future heading their way. Cold War II is upon us and the F-35 is one small piece to the new defense puzzle the non-Chinese actors are constructing. Hey Bob Gates, feel like a bone head for cancelling the F-22? You should.
That is very true mark. Mr. Bacon seems to worship the very ground Winslow Wheeler and Pierre Sprey walk on...... and Boeing, of course
DeleteNorway's order says the cost for their F-35s are exactly 109.11 million USD...... I wonder where people get the 170 million dollar figure from :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder too.
DeleteFY2014 Procurement Program Budget Request
F-35A $176m
F-35B $237m
F-35C $236m
Navy on p. N-3, AF p. F-4
http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2014/amendment/fy2014_p1a.pdf
That's a lot of money for airplanes of a type that's still in development, with unsatisfactory reports on program management, quality control, reliability, performance and cost.
Why would any country purchase such a product a full six years before the US even makes a production decision on it? Makes no sense.