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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Shameful Statistics
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 01:08:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 01:08:53 1986
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In article <2222@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
>	Item: Last week, during a routine training exercise two F-16 fighters
>collided in mid-air. In addition to the loss of two pilots, both planes were
>destroyed.  The replacement cost of those two planes was equal to the entire
>1985 budget for AIDS research (approximately $140,000,000).

Not to say that Craig's sentiment is incorrect, but the figures I have
seen for the cost of an F-16 are quite different. According to "The
Arsenal of Democracy", we have paid the following prices for F-16s:

1979	145 @ $ 9.482 M
1980	175 @ $ 9.465 M
1981	120 @ $14.088 M
1982	120 @ $17.608 M
1983	120 @ $18.704 M
1984	144 @ $17.717 M
1985	150 @ $24.900 M

Two F-16s shouldn't be more than $50 to $70 M in 1986.

Some of the prices we have charged other
countries for F-16s include:

Iran
	160 @ $14.844 M, 1978, including a contribution to F-16 R&D costs
Israel
	75  @ $15.453 M, 1978
	55  @ $23.575 M, 1979
Netherlands
	30  @ $ 7.199 M, 1980
Pakistan
	15  @ $14.5   M, 1981
South Korea
	80  @ $ 7.760 M, 1981
Venezuela
	24  @ $14.5   M, 1981
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