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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 06:16 AM Aug 2013

Exclusive: United Tech, Pentagon in $1 billion-plus deal for F-35 engines

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/26/us-unitedtechnologies-fighter-engines-idUSBRE97P0JR20130826


Exclusive: United Tech, Pentagon in $1 billion-plus deal for F-35 engines
By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON | Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:42pm EDT

(Reuters) - Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, has reached an agreement in principle with the Pentagon on a contract to build 39 engines for a sixth batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, three sources familiar with the deal said on Monday.

The agreement - which Pratt had expected to reach over a month ago - is valued at more than $1 billion, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The Pentagon agreed on the terms of a contract for the sixth and seventh orders of F-35s with Lockheed Martin Corp, which builds the jets, in late July. The government buys the engines separately from Pratt & Whitney, which is the sole producer of engines for the radar-evading warplane.

The negotiations between Pratt and the Pentagon's F-35 program office had focused only on engines for the sixth batch, with separate discussions planned for a seventh batch of F135 engines.


unhappycamper comment: I like the way Lockheed tries to get the cost of the F-35 down.

$1 billion dollars / 39 = $25,641,025 per engine.



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Exclusive: United Tech, Pentagon in $1 billion-plus deal for F-35 engines (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2013 OP
These weapon systems Turbineguy Aug 2013 #1
Yup. n/t unhappycamper Aug 2013 #2
If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ... Scuba Aug 2013 #3

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
1. These weapon systems
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 06:48 AM
Aug 2013

where the cost has no ralation to the need, use or benefit are the defense establishment's best idea yet for bankrupting the country next to endless wars.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 07:35 AM
Aug 2013

... just what is it the defense department is defending?

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