Lockheed Martin’s F-22, F-35 hybrid for Japan will cost $177 million per aircraft
16 Jul 2018 ALERT5 from Yomiuri Online
"The Yomiuri Shimbun disclosed that the Lockheed Martin F-22 with F-35 avionics proposal for Japan is being sold at $177 million for each aircraft. An anonymous defense official says while Lockheed’s proposal is most suitable, the price is much higher than the $133 million per aircraft that Tokyo is willing to fork out...."
http://alert5.com/2018/07/17/lockhe...for-japan-will-cost-177-million-per-aircraft/
"In the three plans, the Lockheed draft is outstanding due to stealthiness and flight performance, and the Ministry of Defense has been looking forward from the information gathering stage. However, according to the official proposal Lockheed showed on the 13th,
the price per machine was over 20 billion yen, the forecast by the Ministry of Defense, which was considered to be 15 billion yen, and the price of F35 (about 13.1 billion yen) introduced by the sky, Significantly higher than the results. A senior official of the Ministry of Defense says, "It's too expensive, I can not accept it as it is."
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/20180717-OYT1T50017.html