В США оценили стоимость аналога Су-57
19FortyFive: стоимость программы F-15EX может превысить затраты на F-35
Стоимость американского истребителя четвертого поколения F-15EX Eagle II может превысить стоимость самолета пятого поколения
F-35. Подорожание программы разработки самолета,
считающегося аналогом российского
Су-57,
оценили в публикации 19FortyFive.
Отмечается, что в скором времени каждый F-35A и F-15EX будет обходиться примерно в 80 миллионов долларов, а в рамках второй партии стоимость F-15EX возрастет до 90 миллионов. Более того, цена будет расти с каждой новой поставкой и достигнет 97 миллионов долларов за самолет к третьей партии.
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«Растущие расходы на малозаметные F-15EX могут привести к усилению давления с целью покупки вместо них F-35», — пишет издание. При этом в
компании Boeing надеются, что экспортные поставки F-15EX позволят снизить стоимость самолетов.
Также сторонники программы F-15EX подчеркивают, что покупка самолетов четвертого поколения позволит поддержать промышленную базу. Автор уточнил, что Boeing и Lockheed Martin остаются последними американскими компаниями, которые строят истребители.
Ранее в ноябре издание Defense News
писало, что Boeing планирует передать новый истребитель четвертого поколения F-15EX Военно-воздушным силам
США почти на год позже первоначально запланированного срока.
В сентябре в публикации Popular Mechanics
отметили, что один F-15EX, который способен нести до 12 ракет класса «воздух-воздух», может сбить шесть самолетов противника.
The F-35A Is Now Cheaper Than The F-15EX
The F-35 program ranks among the biggest boondoggles in military procurement history. But now the F-15EX, an enhanced variant of the fourth-generation fighter, is on track to be even more expensive.
By
John Rossomando
Published
2 days ago
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The F-35 program ranks among the biggest boondoggles in military procurement history. But now the F-15EX, an enhanced variant of the fourth-generation fighter, is
on track to be even more expensive.
Projections for the F-35A and the F-15EX
put each plane at around $80 million. That cost is now
expected to now reach $90 million for the F-15EX in Lot 2 under the contract finalized between Boeing and the Pentagon on Sept. 28. Jets in the Lot 3 contract are projected to cost $97 million apiece, and $94 million in Lot 4. ,
The new version of the 1970s vintage fighter includes a robust electronic warfare package called the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System, or
EPAWSS.
The F-15EX
differs from prior F-15 models in that it features digital flight controls, advanced cockpit touch displays, and state-of-the-art sensors. It has over three times the weapons payload capacity of the F-35.
Costs Balloon
When the contract was signed a year ago for the first lot of aircraft, the cost stood at $80.5 million. This means that costs will increase each year until the fourth lot enters into production.
“We’re looking at ‘how do we buy at scale’. We’re looking at ‘how do we partner with suppliers for long-term affordability’. We’re looking at ‘how do we control our own costs in the factory, whether that’s kind of infrastructure cost or whether that’s efficiency that we can continue to build in?’” Mark Sears, vice president of fighters at Boeing,
told Defense One. “Today’s economics and inflation and workforce instability—all of that is real and so we’re trying to be as proactive as possible about how do we try to overcome that or at least stem the growth in the future.”
Ballooning costs for the non-stealthy F-15EX could prompt increased pressure to buy F-35s instead.
Boeing hopes that foreign sales of the F-15EX will spread out the costs and make procurement cheaper.
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The F-35 and F-15EX Compared
The F-35’s radar cross-section is equivalent to an insect, while the F-15EX’s radar signature is over 40 feet across. F-35 Joint Program Office spokesperson Russ Goemaere told Defense One that the cost of each F-35A in production lots 15 through 17, delivered in 2023 through 2025, is $82.5 million per plane.
The F-16 remains in production for foreign militaries and costs $63 million per copy.
“We’re paying more and we’re getting something that’s markedly less than the value of the F-35,” Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow John Venable said.
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Proponents of the F-15EX contend that buying the planes will support the industrial base — Lockheed Martin and Boeing are the last two companies still building fighter jets.
The Air Force initially planned to buy 144 F-15EXs, but the Biden administration cut that number to 80 in its 2024 budget proposal. It was partially restored to 104 by Congress in the 2024 proposal.
Sears noted that two of the eight projected Lot 1B F-15EXs have been delivered.
It remains to be seen whether Boeing can attract new foreign customers for the F-15EX to spread out the overall costs.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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John Rossomando
John Rossomando is a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award in 2008 for his reporting.