Quasar
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kind of interesting article if designing, developing and manufacturing our own figther will cost us $31 billion to $33 billion??????? by following the logic and the numbers given in the article lets have a look to the other option....and there is only one option since co-production of a fighter with south korea was faild. our ''the only option'' is buying 200 figthers since we have to replace our aging fleet...then the question is who might be the candidatas;
1-some more F-35,
2-eurofigher or rafale
3- a mixture of 1 and 2
4- highly unlikly but a russian 4,5 which has seemingly a lower price tag but eventuly costing you an amount just a little bit lower than a eurofigher or rafale
-buying 200 eurofigher or rafale....around 120 mil each... total 24 bil
-a mixture some more F-35 and eurofigher or rafale... again most probably some where around 24 bil or even more.
I am not telling anything about TF-X project. just economically speaking . There are three facts; we have to to replace our aging fleet, buying 200 fighters will cost around 24 bil and the development and the final deliveries of TF-X will take more than 2 decades.
so my point is if someone assumes as done by the article that Turkey will have to spend $31 billion to $33 billion for the Turkish fighter, given the fact that buying 200 figther will cost more than 20 bil, arguing that spending extra 7 to 9 bil through more than two decades which is may be less than 300 mil annually renders TF-X project economically unfeasible or in question is a weak argument and it is funny........
1-some more F-35,
2-eurofigher or rafale
3- a mixture of 1 and 2
4- highly unlikly but a russian 4,5 which has seemingly a lower price tag but eventuly costing you an amount just a little bit lower than a eurofigher or rafale
-buying 200 eurofigher or rafale....around 120 mil each... total 24 bil
-a mixture some more F-35 and eurofigher or rafale... again most probably some where around 24 bil or even more.
I am not telling anything about TF-X project. just economically speaking . There are three facts; we have to to replace our aging fleet, buying 200 fighters will cost around 24 bil and the development and the final deliveries of TF-X will take more than 2 decades.
so my point is if someone assumes as done by the article that Turkey will have to spend $31 billion to $33 billion for the Turkish fighter, given the fact that buying 200 figther will cost more than 20 bil, arguing that spending extra 7 to 9 bil through more than two decades which is may be less than 300 mil annually renders TF-X project economically unfeasible or in question is a weak argument and it is funny........