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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Lightning II never strikes the same plane twice
 
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Sormus
Jul 24, 2007

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Quoted without comment: Actually commenting on this a bit. El Presidente has, after long and arduous process of negotiating with defense subcontractors, managed to not affect the unit price of the plane at all, but will, however, take any credit for it anyway.

A Man With Tiny Hands posted:

A lot was put out, and when they say a lot, a lot meant about 90 planes. They were having a lot of difficulty. There was no movement and I was able to get $600 million approximately off those planes.

Foxtrot Alpha posted:

it turns out Trump had nothing to do with it. At all. As the Post notes, the head of the F-35 program at the Pentagon announced a cost reduction of six to seven percent per plane on December 20th, days before Trump’s team actually started meeting with the defense industry.
If you do the math on that, a “six to seven percent” cost reduction for the most recent F-35 production lot would amount to—get this—approximately $600 million. Specifically, it would result in a cost reduction of “$590 million to $630 million.”

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/f-35-a-great-plane-now-thanks-to-president-trump-1791824958

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