Eh, he was unambiguously wrong though? Not that it is forbidden to be wrong, mistakes happen.
Assume a new airframe replacement was hypothetically bought tomorrow, to take the destroyed airframe’s place. That makes it very clear that the cost sustained by the US is not “lifetime cost to operate”.
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Thanks, I didn’t know that and accidentally provided an over-estimate.
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Eh, he was unambiguously wrong though? Not that it is forbidden to be wrong, mistakes happen.
Assume a new airframe replacement was hypothetically bought tomorrow, to take the destroyed airframe’s place. That makes it very clear that the cost sustained by the US is not “lifetime cost to operate”.