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The F/A-22 and its nearest competitors

For Tim:

The price of a single F/A-22: $257 million

(Note that this is the combined development and production cost distributed across an order of 279 fighters. This combination of costs is reasonable in light of the fact that we're unlikely to sell these to anyone else, so it really is costing us that much per plane.)

The price of a single Russian-made Su-30 fighter-bomber: $37 million

The Joint Strike Fighter is intended to cost as much as a Sukhoi, but is, naturally, experiencing cost overruns and curtailed performance.

The price of a single A-10 Thunderbolt: $13 million

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