After the proposals from Lockheed and Saab was delivered to Norway on monday, the price on Gripen has now been leaked to the media. 48 aircrafts will cost Norway NOK 23 billion. This price is guaranteed with deliveries from 2016, and includes spare parts, simulators, training of pilots and technicians, manuals and helmets. Tom Burbage from Lockheed said on monday that 48 JSF would cost less than NOK 20 billion. In general the average cost of the Conventional Take Off and Landing variant cost is in the mid to upper $40 Million range using 2002 USD value, he said in an interview.
Saab has all the time claimed that Gripen is cheaper than JSF, and used that as an argument for Gripen. After Lockheed revealed their price on monday, Saab has not mentioned anything about price, but on question from journalist Hans Rosen from Saab said today that he still think the lifetime cost of the Gripen will be about half of the JSF cost.
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No JSF is not cheaper despite being built as a budget jet at lowest possible price. They obviously gave the currently estimated flyaway price which is 80 million.
In addition there's almost twice as much in life-cycle costs, support, simulators, logistics etc. The exact costs is still unknown.
Sweden is offering a fixed price including ALL such as simulators, training, support, HMDs, life cycle costs, a total solution. Near half the final price.
Some of the Gripen advantages:
InfraRed Search and Track in a wider Air to Air mode
Supercruise with AAMs, fast interception
Mach 2+, even faster interception
Dedicated EW jammer, complements the AESA
Optional Two-seat version with tactical seat for enhanced multirole (shared workload on A2A, A2G, EW, Nav, Coms, external sensors (UAVs))
Short track 500m runways
Flexibility from light load/high performance to heavy loadout
Less fuel usage, lower engine noise
Engine growth path demonstrated by GE under a US Navy program
Anti-Ship role from design start
Modular avionics structure, uncertified software
Defense industry development rather than manufacture to a foreign blueprint
Very close to the factory
F-35 might be enough for a small country like Holland but Norway really need something that can react fast in the nordic region as well as drop bombs. Too bad Eurofighter pulled out.
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Quote Nighthawk00:
"n/o to the Swedes but I think Norway wants something more capable than a Gripen".
And exactly WHAT would YOU know about Gripen capabilties???
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As far as I could read out of the offer from LM, its only the planes, no training of ground crew, no training of pilots, and no spare parts... All included in the swedish offer. And for the f-35, the americans have a new way of counting the maitance of the plane, onestly, Could not quite understand it
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