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TT - Cheap to buy is not the same as cheap to operate. Ask someone who drives a Honda.


Not a bias, but militaries should pay more attention to operating costs when they write specifications or buy equipment. That in the long run is what blows budgets.


What's interesting about JAS 39E is that the customer can get airframe/system cost data out of the C/D operators and engine data from the USN, which constrains Saab from making silly claims or having to say "You don't understand it because it's all different from legacy jets".


And I confess to a bias in favor of people who deliver products on time and on schedule, and that do what it says on the tin. I know that's crazy, but what can I say.


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