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@$135 Million a Unit, Dassault and Lockheed Martin might be having great laugh on India's Proposed 5th Generation Fighter program with Russia
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SOURCE: ABHOY ROY / FOR MY TAKE / IDRW.ORG
It’s more or less official that Indo-Russian Joint venture to develop 5th Generation fighter jets based on Russian Sukhoi developed T-50 fighter jet will be $135 Million Dollars per unit which is much higher than the initial estimate of $90-110 Million per unit cost calculated at the earlier stage between two countries.
Dassault Rafale fighter jet which was brought by India $ 3.86 Billion Dollars without weapons worked out to be $ 106 Million for 36 Units ordered by India.
That’s not it India will also need to foot the bill for its development which will range from $4-6 Billion dollars and also have minimum order units of 127 jets which are 13 aircraft more than 114 requirements placed by Indian Air Force to the Government.
India will need to spend nearly $23-24 Billion dollars in R&D and Procurement cost of 127 jets in long term. Indian will also need to buy specially designed Weapons for use from its Internal internal weapons bay for the aircraft to be operated in Stealth missions, which could be $3-4 Billion dollars additional on weapons purchase.
Lockheed Martin on other hand is working out hard to bring F-35A ( Air Force Version ) to below $85 Million Dollars per unit in its Vanilla Stage (Without Weapons ) by 2020. Lockheed Martin which is also eyeing India’s Single-engined requirement for 100 fighter jets is also offering its F-16 Block 70 for under $60 Million per unit if manufactured locally in India.
http://idrw.org/135-million-a-unit-...d-5th-generation-fighter-program-with-russia/
3 minutes
SOURCE: ABHOY ROY / FOR MY TAKE / IDRW.ORG
It’s more or less official that Indo-Russian Joint venture to develop 5th Generation fighter jets based on Russian Sukhoi developed T-50 fighter jet will be $135 Million Dollars per unit which is much higher than the initial estimate of $90-110 Million per unit cost calculated at the earlier stage between two countries.
Dassault Rafale fighter jet which was brought by India $ 3.86 Billion Dollars without weapons worked out to be $ 106 Million for 36 Units ordered by India.
That’s not it India will also need to foot the bill for its development which will range from $4-6 Billion dollars and also have minimum order units of 127 jets which are 13 aircraft more than 114 requirements placed by Indian Air Force to the Government.
India will need to spend nearly $23-24 Billion dollars in R&D and Procurement cost of 127 jets in long term. Indian will also need to buy specially designed Weapons for use from its Internal internal weapons bay for the aircraft to be operated in Stealth missions, which could be $3-4 Billion dollars additional on weapons purchase.
Lockheed Martin on other hand is working out hard to bring F-35A ( Air Force Version ) to below $85 Million Dollars per unit in its Vanilla Stage (Without Weapons ) by 2020. Lockheed Martin which is also eyeing India’s Single-engined requirement for 100 fighter jets is also offering its F-16 Block 70 for under $60 Million per unit if manufactured locally in India.
http://idrw.org/135-million-a-unit-...d-5th-generation-fighter-program-with-russia/