rickusn

"The 11 billion Australian (9.3 US) is for 3 F-105+ variants of the F-100 and 2 LHD variants of the Spanish BPE.
It comes out to two 27,000+ ton LHDs for 2.5 billion US and 3 AWDs for 1.35 billion US."

Im not sure I understand where you come up with 1.35.

My calculator says:

9.3 minus 2.5 = 6.8 divided by 3 = approx 2.3

Or do you mean each LHD is 2.5.

But that doesnt jibe either because 3b Aus is for two LHD and 8B Aus is for three F-100.

"And in another win for Spain, the Australian navy will be equipped with two 27,000 tonne Navantia landing ships at a cost of about A$3 billion."

"At a cost of nearly $8 billion, and subject to successful contract negotiations, Navantia will work with the AWD Alliance (Defence Materiel Organization, ASC and Raytheon Australia ) to deliver three AWDs to the Royal Australian Navy. "

And what about this from another article?

"Mr Howard said the navy would be equipped with three Navantia F100 air warfare destroyers worth a total of A$8 billion ($9.02 billion)."

Which would make them 3b a pop if correct.

What am I not understanding?????????????

BTW Great blog.