Re: 40 x F16V70 planes, 79 V70 upgrade kits for 23 billion dollars purchase package
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We have one member thinking it is going to cost us 8-12 billion, another member thinking 10-12 billion.
There is a page full of equipment that are listed there. Also ammunition, integration cost of that ammunition, technical know how and other miscellaneous stuff that only the Turkish airforce know about.
In order to even guess how much of that we will buy and how much that will cost, one needs to be a member of the team that is negotiating with the US and the equipment manufacturers.
We are crying out because they are sitting on our 1.2-1.4 billion dollars. Then the margins of error of our members’ guesstimates are double or triple that amount.
If any guesstimates are to be made it has to come from concrete basis and with knowledge of what our airforce really needs.
Greece and Taiwan are upgrading their F16 fleets to V70. We can draw similarities and analogies as to what the cost ”may be”.
Again Taiwan and a number of other countries are purchasing F16V70 planes. We can do the same and draw similarities.
At 63 million a piece naked according to open sources, the F16 planes are 2.4 billion dollars. Greece paid 2.4 billion for 123 upgrade kits.
But it has to be remembered that each country’s needs and demands are different and the level of equipment and weapons will vary.
At this stage, all we are privy to is that ; there is a 23 billion dollar package from which we will pick and choose what we want.
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