4scourge7 Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) 6 billion quids buys..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42302767 Cheers, Ian Edit- unless I miss my guess, that is now the four core participants and five export customers; Austria, Saudi, Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar. Today`s announcement being the confirmation of an earlier `declaration of intent`. Edited December 10, 2017 by ian buick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Even allowing for an after-sales support package, $250m a throw seems a bit steep, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4scourge7 Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 The BBC online article says it is a package that includes training and support, along with unknown quantities of Brimstone missiles, Meteor missiles, Paveway IV, whiles tele land BBC talked of other elements including radar systems. Cheers, Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Jones Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Interesting developments in Qatar , over the last few years they have bought Rafale , F16 and now Typhoon , they have gone from about ten first line fighters, to about one hundred of three different types. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonM Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 It’s the old Premiership football conundrum - what to spend all our money on?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Means they can afford to fall out with up to 2 of France, US and UK/Germany/Italy at any given time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Belgium next then ...not sure how the Austrians are doing though....they have had some issues but its gone quiet recently some maybe the problems have been ironed out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boman Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Quatar never operated nor bought the F-16, however they have signed for quite a few F-15QA's. As for Austria, they last spoke of potentially offhanding the Typhoons - this is a follow-on from the bribe scandal related to the procurement process from years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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