In commenting on the information provided by the Government to the House of Commons on
the costs of the fighter jets, the proposed crime legislation and the projections of corporate profits, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did provide an assessment of these estimates [2] in their report to the Committee.
Not exact matches
A new contract for more F - 35
fighter jets will take time, given the focus on
cost, the CEO
of the world's largest defense contractor says.
Trump recently criticized the
cost of the company's F - 35
fighter jet program.
All
of this is small beer compared to the massive
costs of new F - 35
fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.
The actual non-confidence vote, only the sixth in Canadian history, found the government in contempt
of Parliament for refusing to supply full
cost estimates for
fighter jets, crime bills and corporate tax cuts.
Kissing the Edge
Cost: $ 29,000 If you don't have the cash to get all the way into space, you can strap yourself into the two - seater cockpit
of a MiG - 31, the most advanced Russian
fighter jet in operation.
More sobering, their combined
cost, over their entire 15 years
of operation, is roughly equal to the
cost of 10 F - 35
fighter jets.
McCouch estimates the
cost of such a program at about $ 200 million per year, just a bit more than the
cost of a single
fighter jet.
On the other hand, you can load it on an F - 16
jet fighter and send it off; with a few in - flight refuelings the barrel will be delivered in record time but at a great energy
cost (much more energy then could ever be extracted from the barrel
of oil).
After all, it would only
cost the price
of one
fighter jet.
(Speaking
of fighter jets and Australia, that country plans to buy 100 F - 35's at a
cost of AUD16 billion — we don't want to look like pikers all round, do we?)