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How much a tf6000 level engine cost when and if you can buy it?

5mil sounds a steal to me
Bro, it all depends on where it is being developed, and how much foreign input has been used.
According to unconfirmed estimates an engine like TF6000 should cost best part of 2 billion dollars when developed in Western countries. Having said that; According to again, unconfirmed estimates, India has already spent 400-500 million dollars on their Kaveri turbofan. So costbase plays a big part.

If you check that GE&RR partnership spent on F136 engine over 3billion dollars and needed more than another billion to finish it when they stopped development (With today’s money that would have been over 7billion dollars).

Now, if we are talking about buying an engine like TF6000 that is a different story.
Take Honeywell F124 non AB engine with similar thrust level; This engine in 2005 could have been purchased for 2.5 million. (That is 4.2 million dollars with today’s money)
Yet Israel bought 30 of these with very specific details and custom produced to their own specifications at an individual price of 24.5 million dollars in 2012.
TF6000 is going to be a more advanced engine than F124. So according to order quantity and the customer’s “needs” the price will vary.


Also cost price and sale price will be very different.
Even in a cost price, if you include development costs in individual engines, you will get a different price against if you don’t include.

EDIT:

P&W‘s latest price to Pentagon for F135 engines was 20.4 million a piece.
But remember that there are going to be over 3000 of these planes needing many replacements too.

 
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