What does an A-10 cost?
It was also expensive to buy and operate, with a flyaway cost of $2 million in FY1965 ($17.2 million today), and operational costs over $900 per hour ($8,000 per hour today).
How much does it cost to fly an A-10 Warthog?
For comparison, the F-15 is $40,000, the F-16 is $23,000, and the A-10 is $20,000 per flying hour.
Why the A-10 is obsolete?
Is the A-10 viable over today’s battlefields? Against low-tech enemies with poor air-defense weapons such as ISIS or the Taliban, the A-10 is still a capable platform. Against other, more modern threats such as Russian or Chinese air defenses the A-10 cannot survive on its own.
How much does it cost to maintain a fighter jet?
Operations and maintenance costs for the F-35A are currently about $36,000 per flight hour. Program officials aim to reduce it to $25,000 by 2025. The procurement cost for the fighter jet is currently just under $80 million per plane.
How much does it cost to shoot an A-10?
Fact: At less than $18,000 per combat hour, that makes the A-10 21% cheaper to fly than the F-16 (which carries half the ammunition load for a smaller cannon).
Can you buy a decommissioned A-10?
Yes, you can!
How much does it cost to maintain an F-16?
F-16 maintenance costs are not publicly disclosed, but defense analysts speculate it costs $10 million to maintain an F-16 every year.
Why do fighter jets require so much maintenance?
The biggest thing to point out is that fighters/bombers have weapons, and weapons systems which need maintenance. So the hard points, weapons delivery systems, etc all need maintenance while commercial aircraft do not. Fighter/bombers also have ejection seats, where commercial aircraft do not.
Does the A-10 gun slow it down?
But, as a Forward Observer who has watched A-10’s firing their vulcan in flight from as close as about 50 feet, it slows it down enough to be visible.
How much did a b29 cost?
$3 billion
The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $45 billion today), far exceeding the $1.9 billion cost of the Manhattan Project, made the B-29 program the most expensive of the war….Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
| B-29 Superfortress | |
|---|---|
| Produced | 1943–1946 |
| Number built | 3,970 |
How much does an A-10 cost?
As others have posted, the cost of an A-10 was $18.8 million (approx. $46.3M in today’s dollars). However, with rewinging the aircraft to extend the service life of the aircraft meant spending additional money under a contract to Boeing military aircraft division for approximately $3.16 billion for the 242 aircraft in service.
Can the military afford its sustainment costs?
The military services collectively face tens of billions of dollars in sustainment costs that they project will be unaffordable. For example, the Air Force needs to reduce estimated annual per-plane costs by $3.7 million (47%) by 2036, or costs in that year alone will be $4.4 billion more than it can afford.
What are the advantages of the A-10C?
The A-10C offers excellent maneuverability at low airspeeds and altitude while maintaining a highly accurate weapons-delivery platform. They can loiter near battle areas for extended periods of time, are capable of austere landings and operate under 1,000-foot ceilings (303.3 meters) with 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) visibility.
Should the DoD spend 70% of weapons lifecycle costs on sustainment?
There’s no law of nature that sustainment must be 70% of weapons lifecycle costs. The rise of information technology (really, intangible asset creation) and harnessing disaggregated/attritable systems can help the DoD flip the proportion so that 70% is in acquisition and 30% is in sustainment.