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given the current budget problems within the Pentagon, is it in anyway realistic to think that the Australians might get F-22 for its production cost only (the only way it could be remotely affordable)?
the USAF really needs to recoup cash - fast - from the R&D effort that went into F-22, but even if the Pentagon were to make a little profit from each 'Australian' F-22, can anyone really see congress allowing a deal where the US taxpayer pays $300 Million US for each airframe (a wild stab at production cost plus a slice of the R&D cost) while the Australian taxpayer pays a mere (!) $187 million US for the same airframe?
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