Do you have the values for both/either, please?SW1 wrote:It isn’t nor is the f35 $80m.dmereifield wrote:It can't be that much, surely?Ron5 wrote:Typhoon is more like 200 million UK pounds fly away.dmereifield wrote:As for the first point, is Typhoon cheaper than an F35A? Aren't they coming in at something silly like $80million?
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Well I know there’s lots of interest in “flyaway” costs but there usually for the marketing brochures as this is generally the smallest cost you will pay. Training, operating, Startup, thru life support is where the real costs with operating any aircraft are. Regardless of whatever is quoted the only real metric for the UK, is what the UK set aside to bring the a/c into service. NAO provide numbers on this last time I looked typhoon for design, manufacture and entry into service of 160 a/c was about £17.5b with a further £13b estimated to take the whole fleet thru to 2030s. For f35 the design manufacture and entry into service will cost uk about £9b pounds.dmereifield wrote:Do you have the values for both/either, please?SW1 wrote:It isn’t nor is the f35 $80m.dmereifield wrote:It can't be that much, surely?Ron5 wrote:Typhoon is more like 200 million UK pounds fly away.dmereifield wrote:As for the first point, is Typhoon cheaper than an F35A? Aren't they coming in at something silly like $80million?
Last time I saw a mention of typhoon “flyaway” was around £60m. But as I mention it’s an irrelevant number.
One also has to remember what is encompassed with tempest it is not just about a manned aircraft it’s about a system. That involves R&D in testing, engine tech, in radars, in sensors in complex weapons and other things beside. If you simply say we’re buying f35 most of that stops its pointless to keep investing in tech that will never make it onto an aircraft as the US decides when and if something is integrated.
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The highest figure I've seen for Typhoon was £165m per copy. That included the UK's share of the development costs. Never seen a price as high as £200m. There's no doubt its more expensive in cash terms than F-35A, but its where that money is spent that really matters. I think we're all clear now that the '15%' in the UK is a load of old tosh for F-35, but Typhoon's 35-40% in the UK most definitely isn't. And that matters.Ron5 wrote:Typhoon is more like 200 million UK pounds fly away.
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I’ve seen the £200m figure bandy about before usually associated with the clowns in the Phoenix think tank it’s there pet program to hate.Timmymagic wrote:The highest figure I've seen for Typhoon was £165m per copy. That included the UK's share of the development costs. Never seen a price as high as £200m. There's no doubt its more expensive in cash terms than F-35A, but its where that money is spent that really matters. I think we're all clear now that the '15%' in the UK is a load of old tosh for F-35, but Typhoon's 35-40% in the UK most definitely isn't. And that matters.Ron5 wrote:Typhoon is more like 200 million UK pounds fly away.
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The £165m I saw was a pretty belt and braces figure as well, including costs through EAP and the efforts in the early 80's.SW1 wrote:I’ve seen the £200m figure bandy about before usually associated with the clowns in the Phoenix think tank it’s there pet program to hate.
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Good to bring in the figures compiled by folks who actually can be hauled in front of some 'body' to explain how they got there.SW1 wrote: NAO provide numbers on this last time I looked typhoon for design, manufacture and entry into service of 160 a/c was about £17.5b with a further £13b estimated to take the whole fleet thru to 2030s. For f35 the design manufacture and entry into service will cost uk about £9b pounds.
I would work with a rule of ten: the figures NAO have been given are the figures submitted into the EP
- the good news: it includes everything required for the project to declare ISD (and then beyond, out to ten years, including half a bn for upgrading Marham)
- the bad news: however hard the Parliament (& its committees) have pressed, the MoD has not stated how many a/c we will end up with, for that money. Nor does it cover 'unplanned' upgrades and as it is a JSF we have heard noises from the Joint Command (now under a new name) that a bn would be required, to make the fleet work 'as planned'
So, after all the plusses and minuses, it is 10 bn and 10 yrs
Whereas for Typhoon it is 30 for 30 (I would be counting not from OCU but the first operational squadron in 2006)... we even know the number of aircraft (160, but now much less, so again such long horizon costs should be related, not to the cumulative total, but the average 'balance' available. Therefore not leaping full-in but rather drip feeding, as we are, might be a very good cost containment policy: get the finished product, not half-baked initial versions )
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There is only one reason that a government department withholds data on such a grand scale....it means the situation is a disaster, with serious questions to be asked of the department question. You can guarantee it iif they had a good tale to share they would be shouting it out..ArmChairCivvy wrote:- the bad news: however hard the Parliament (& its committees) have pressed, the MoD has not stated how many a/c we will end up with, for that money.
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The Italian's have potentially landed this one, so they will want the assembly work in Italy. The only switcheroo so far on Typhoon production was when the UK gave the Saudi's its remaining 72 from the RAF's committed order slots, neatly sidestepping the UK buying far less than originally pledged. In that regard we're almost as bad as the Germans, although at least we got another country to take our allocation rather than just cancelling.Caribbean wrote:Also the 24 for Spain, as they may be diverted off the production line to fill the Egyptian order (maybe the same thing could be said about the German order......).
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That is now the official mechanism with A-400M. Except that towards the member semi-equity loan, for it to become payable (back), sales are counted without these sorts of 'deliveries'.Timmymagic wrote:switcheroo so far on Typhoon production was when the UK gave the Saudi's its remaining 72 from the RAF's committed order slots, neatly sidestepping the UK buying far less than originally pledged. In that regard we're almost as bad as the Germans, although at least we got another country to take our allocation
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What a bunch of twaddle.SW1 wrote:Well I know there’s lots of interest in “flyaway” costs but there usually for the marketing brochures as this is generally the smallest cost you will pay. Training, operating, Startup, thru life support is where the real costs with operating any aircraft are. Regardless of whatever is quoted the only real metric for the UK, is what the UK set aside to bring the a/c into service. NAO provide numbers on this last time I looked typhoon for design, manufacture and entry into service of 160 a/c was about £17.5b with a further £13b estimated to take the whole fleet thru to 2030s. For f35 the design manufacture and entry into service will cost uk about £9b pounds.dmereifield wrote:Do you have the values for both/either, please?SW1 wrote:It isn’t nor is the f35 $80m.dmereifield wrote:It can't be that much, surely?Ron5 wrote:Typhoon is more like 200 million UK pounds fly away.dmereifield wrote:As for the first point, is Typhoon cheaper than an F35A? Aren't they coming in at something silly like $80million?
Last time I saw a mention of typhoon “flyaway” was around £60m. But as I mention it’s an irrelevant number.
One also has to remember what is encompassed with tempest it is not just about a manned aircraft it’s about a system. That involves R&D in testing, engine tech, in radars, in sensors in complex weapons and other things beside. If you simply say we’re buying f35 most of that stops its pointless to keep investing in tech that will never make it onto an aircraft as the US decides when and if something is integrated.
Flyaway is extremely relevant,. If the RAF want to buy x Typhoons in 20221, they will need x times flyaway pounds in the kitty. What was spent decades ago in R&D means nothing.
I did make up the 200 million to get a reaction from the Typhoon fans around here. It's actually well over 100 million going by the prices Eurofighter is quoting to prospective buyers. It's at least double F-35. The total acquisition bill of course, depends hugely on whether you are adding to existing inventory or buying a brand new type.
By the way the 60 million, which was actually 65 million, was quoted a long, long, time ago in NAO reports as UPC. Much water has passed since then.
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Nope. The UK government withholds such data as a matter of routine. Can't have taxpayers knowing exactly where their money will or was spent.Timmymagic wrote:There is only one reason that a government department withholds data on such a grand scale....it means the situation is a disaster, with serious questions to be asked of the department question. You can guarantee it iif they had a good tale to share they would be shouting it out..ArmChairCivvy wrote:- the bad news: however hard the Parliament (& its committees) have pressed, the MoD has not stated how many a/c we will end up with, for that money.
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O really? You can back up that claim no doubt.Timmymagic wrote:I think we're all clear now that the '15%' in the UK is a load of old tosh for F-35
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Funny that, then that both are still in the Finnish fighter competition for 64 a/c - complete with support systems - in which the parameters have been from start e 7 to 10[must not exceed] bnRon5 wrote:It's actually well over 100 million going by the prices Eurofighter is quoting to prospective buyers. It's at least double F-35.
- and though everything is secret - sorry, commercially confidential - the press has (well, who else) printed rumours that the F-35 support costs have been 'bent' or at least there has been a try to achieve such a result, so that the plane could stay in the competition
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I'm talking flyaway, you are talking about something else.ArmChairCivvy wrote:Funny that, then that both are still in the Finnish fighter competition for 64 a/c - complete with support systems - in which the parameters have been from start e 7 to 10[must not exceed] bnRon5 wrote:It's actually well over 100 million going by the prices Eurofighter is quoting to prospective buyers. It's at least double F-35.
- and though everything is secret - sorry, commercially confidential - the press has (well, who else) printed rumours that the F-35 support costs have been 'bent' or at least there has been a try to achieve such a result, so that the plane could stay in the competition
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Relevance.Ron5 wrote:something else.
Like the birds flying away with engines, not without.
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Nope. Support costs for a long established type like the Typhoon are quite different that those of a new type like the F-35. And the subect was aircraft purchase price for the RAF in case you can't remember.ArmChairCivvy wrote:Relevance.Ron5 wrote:something else.
Like the birds flying away with engines, not without.
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- except that you have to buy two for each plane available: "Fewer than half of the Air Force F-35s were deemed mission-ready in 2018, according to Air Force Times."Ron5 wrote:I did make up the 200 million to get a reaction from the Typhoon fans around here. It's actually well over 100 million going by the prices Eurofighter is quoting to prospective buyers. It's at least double F-35.
Today's military often says that they are buying capability, not hardware. Per unit of capability... not looking that good?
- on the F-35 thread we can discuss support costs, a little taster from Bloomberg when they looked into it last year, I guess spurred on by all the 'nasties' that surfaced around the Block4 costs
Research and procurement increases by $22 billion: cost office
Six decades of operations and support grows by $73 billion
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A severe case of what-about-iss instead of talking to the point.ArmChairCivvy wrote:- except that you have to buy two for each plane available: "Fewer than half of the Air Force F-35s were deemed mission-ready in 2018, according to Air Force Times."Ron5 wrote:I did make up the 200 million to get a reaction from the Typhoon fans around here. It's actually well over 100 million going by the prices Eurofighter is quoting to prospective buyers. It's at least double F-35.
Today's military often says that they are buying capability, not hardware. Per unit of capability... not looking that good?
- on the F-35 thread we can discuss support costs, a little taster from Bloomberg when they looked into it last year, I guess spurred on by all the 'nasties' that surfaced around the Block4 costs
Research and procurement increases by $22 billion: cost office
Six decades of operations and support grows by $73 billion
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F-35 points belong to that thread, not in Brit-bashing on some other thread. I put something there, for you to chew on, as here we have had several responses already which are like the above... and avoiding the point.Ron5 wrote:A severe case of what-about-iss instead of talking to the point.
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Ron5 is a troll, he is the American version of Photoex over on arrse, funny how they get the same responses.ArmChairCivvy wrote:F-35 points belong to that thread, not in Brit-bashing on some other thread. I put something there, for you to chew on, as here we have had several responses already which are like the above... and avoiding the point.Ron5 wrote:A severe case of what-about-iss instead of talking to the point.
He has also been seen trolling on the UK Defence journal, but both of them are scared of posting on PPrUnne.
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I went over to pprune and was surprised my old login still worked. It said the last time I was there was February 2016.
The first page I looked at about the F-35 contained this gem:
"Probably the most iconic RAF Sqn now commanded by an RN officer, an example of the extraordinary good faith with which the RAF has approached this project" from an ex-RAF pilot.
I laughed so hard I couldn't continue. Presumably the "good faith" was the innumerable attempts the RAF made to cancel the carriers.
I left. Such lack of self-awareness shouldn't be disturbed
The first page I looked at about the F-35 contained this gem:
"Probably the most iconic RAF Sqn now commanded by an RN officer, an example of the extraordinary good faith with which the RAF has approached this project" from an ex-RAF pilot.
I laughed so hard I couldn't continue. Presumably the "good faith" was the innumerable attempts the RAF made to cancel the carriers.
I left. Such lack of self-awareness shouldn't be disturbed
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It is good fun keeping them running on their hamster wheel, though .Tinman wrote:Ron5 is a troll, he is the American version of Photoex over on arrse, funny how they get the same responses.
Actually, thinking about it, it is very much akin to the whack-the-mole game... more interactive .
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German airforce today signed a production contract to fit 110 escan radar to there typhoon aircraft
https://www.hensoldt.net/news/important ... logy-base/
Sensor systems supplier HENSOLDT has welcomed today's decision by the German Bundestag to develop the new AESA (= Active Electronic Scanning Array) radar for the entire German Eurofighter fleet as a positive signal for Germany as a technology base and for successful European cooperation in the defence sector.
"With this decision, Germany is taking on a pioneering role in the field of key technology for the Eurofighter for the first time," said HENSOLDT CEO Thomas Müller. "This will create high-tech jobs in Germany and give the Bundeswehr the equipment it needs to respond to new threats. In addition, it is a signal for Europe that Germany is investing in a technology that is of crucial importance for European defence cooperation".
With the release of the budget for the development, production and integration of a new radar for the Eurofighter combat aircraft - HENSOLDT's share is over 1.5 billion euros - the Bundestag's Budget Committee has cleared the way for the modernization of the Eurofighter in one crucial area, sensor technology. In contrast to the development of the radar to date in a consortium under British leadership, radar system responsibility will now pass into the hands of the German radar house HENSOLDT.
https://www.hensoldt.net/news/important ... logy-base/
Sensor systems supplier HENSOLDT has welcomed today's decision by the German Bundestag to develop the new AESA (= Active Electronic Scanning Array) radar for the entire German Eurofighter fleet as a positive signal for Germany as a technology base and for successful European cooperation in the defence sector.
"With this decision, Germany is taking on a pioneering role in the field of key technology for the Eurofighter for the first time," said HENSOLDT CEO Thomas Müller. "This will create high-tech jobs in Germany and give the Bundeswehr the equipment it needs to respond to new threats. In addition, it is a signal for Europe that Germany is investing in a technology that is of crucial importance for European defence cooperation".
With the release of the budget for the development, production and integration of a new radar for the Eurofighter combat aircraft - HENSOLDT's share is over 1.5 billion euros - the Bundestag's Budget Committee has cleared the way for the modernization of the Eurofighter in one crucial area, sensor technology. In contrast to the development of the radar to date in a consortium under British leadership, radar system responsibility will now pass into the hands of the German radar house HENSOLDT.
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Another article here https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... rofightersSW1 wrote:German airforce today signed a production contract to fit 110 escan radar to there typhoon aircraft
https://www.hensoldt.net/news/important ... logy-base/
Sensor systems supplier HENSOLDT has welcomed today's decision by the German Bundestag to develop the new AESA (= Active Electronic Scanning Array) radar for the entire German Eurofighter fleet as a positive signal for Germany as a technology base and for successful European cooperation in the defence sector.
"With this decision, Germany is taking on a pioneering role in the field of key technology for the Eurofighter for the first time," said HENSOLDT CEO Thomas Müller. "This will create high-tech jobs in Germany and give the Bundeswehr the equipment it needs to respond to new threats. In addition, it is a signal for Europe that Germany is investing in a technology that is of crucial importance for European defence cooperation".
With the release of the budget for the development, production and integration of a new radar for the Eurofighter combat aircraft - HENSOLDT's share is over 1.5 billion euros - the Bundestag's Budget Committee has cleared the way for the modernization of the Eurofighter in one crucial area, sensor technology. In contrast to the development of the radar to date in a consortium under British leadership, radar system responsibility will now pass into the hands of the German radar house HENSOLDT.
I'm left very puzzled why Germany is dissatisfied by the job being done by the present consortium. Can they still not get it to work?