More Lies From Northrop Grumman

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Well, $130 million a pop is more than $30 million a pop.




Northrop sees rising demand for Global Hawks
By Otto Kreisher National Journal December 8, 2010

Current Global Hawks have an estimated unit cost of more than $30 million. But the Government Accountability Office said the aircraft cost $130 million when the expense of development, testing, and ground support stations is included.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Both sides could well be right

Key issue is what additional units cost since the gov can not go back and unspend the R&D funds. It is also common to see the additional unit cost go up and the fully burdened cost go down.