Part of that effort includes decreasing costs of aircraft sustainment. Perhaps adding those salaries up doesn’t really cost all that much compared to expensive maintenance procedures from contractors on jets like the F-35. The Congress asked, 'Is it correct that per aircraft pricing of Rafale as per UPA negotiation comes to 80.95 million (Rs 526.1 crore) as against Modi government's per aircraft negotiated price of 241.66 million (Rs 1570. Considerable work behind the scenes goes into keeping the F-35 in the air and ready to support pilots and their missions. I was under the impression that drones (UAVs) need a lot of ground equipment and much more personnel to perform operations. These aircraft cost an estimated $1,500 and $11,500 per hour to operate, respectively. Among the cheapest aircraft that the Air Force operates are Predator drones and the A-10. Its costs are partially due to the lack of an efficient supply chain for the aircraft, something that should be sorted out over the coming years. Surprisingly, the much maligned F-35 is only the seventh most expensive plane per hour that the Air Force flies. It can also refuel aerially and fit up to 112 passengers. The plane is specially designed to survive electromagnetic pulses, with additional thermal and nuclear shielding. Designed as a doomsday plane, the Nightwatch is expensive to operate because of its size and technical abilities. The Nightwatch is a command and control aircraft that’s meant to serve as a flying airbase for the US president and cabinet members in case of a national disaster. The E-4 Nightwatch is the most expensive military plane the Air Force operates. Gripen hardsells new AESA radar, low cost for MMRCA by Saurabh Joshi September 10, 2009. Dassault’s Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and the F-35 aircraft. Moreover, the aircraft’s maker, Lockheed Martin, has also done its part to bring the sustainability cost per flying hour down by some 40.
The higher number ($63,792) sounds more realistic to me, but of course, with the vagaries of costing, both numbers could have been correct given different parameters of the measurement. 5 search results for 'cost per flight hour comparison' Gripen operational cost lowest of all western fighters: Jane’s. F-35 Stealth Fighter Now Costs Less than Boeings F-15EX. Doesn’t seem like much of a bargain compared to the F-22.īreaking Defense reported the cost of the CV-22 Osprey at $9,520 per flying hour back in 2014, only 15 percent of the cost reported by Business Insider two years later. They don’t expect the F-35A, the cheapest of the variants, to go much below $37,000 per flying hour. It appears that by 2019, the F-35A CFPH dropped to about $44,000, shaving almost a third of the cost off in 3 years. Here are the numbers as reported by Business Insider back in 2016:
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