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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: F/A-18
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Date: 24 Jan 90 03:34:51 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: muller@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Mark B. Muller)
>    [F-18] is much less expensive than an F-14, just as the F-16 is cheaper
>    than the F-15....

Ho ho.  That was the idea, all right.  It didn't work out that way after
the USN and USAF got through adding goodies and design changes to the F-18
and F-16 respectively.  How the numbers work out depends on how you do the
accounting, but at one point the F-18's official price actually exceeded
that of the F-14.  The F-16 has never gotten that bad, but the disparity
in cost between it and the F-15 is a lot less than it was supposed to be.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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