http://indiandefence.com/threads/f-35-lightning-ii-news-discussions.21525/page-304#post-503188

It is completly flaw. That is the normal wrong way to compute F-35 price. People takes the last contract price to L.M. and divide by the number of planes. In this case it is $6,370,955,495 divided by 57 that is to say $ 111.77 Millions but the real price have to takes into acount all contracts related to LRIP 9 like long lead items and so on. Here is the list
LRIP-9 CONTRACTS : $11,271,778,966

Lockheed $8,679,012,757
Details
long lead time items $822,532,385
2014 – Mar 25, $698,032,385; Sep 22, $60,000,000
2015 – Oct 30, $64,500,000
initial spares $237,765,479
2015 – Jun 25, $237,765,479
helmet display system $101,304,341
2015 – Jul 14, $101,304,341
tooling & test equipment $526,005,754
2015 – Aug 4, $431,322,997; Dec 21, $84,434,012
2016 – Feb 16, $10,248,745
miscellaneous $572,934,481
2015 – Aug 31, $430,878,490; Oct 30, $120,555,991; Dec 10, $21,500,000
2016 – Apr 15, $181,765,203
modification management $47,514,822
2015 – Dec 28, $47,514,822
undefinitized: $6,370,955,495
Details
2016 – Nov 3 , $5,370,955,495
2016 – Aug 12, “about $1,000,000,000”
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Pratt – engine $2,592,766,209
long lead time items $105,170,571
2014 – May 2, $105,170,571
manufacturing $1,038,074,689
2016 – Apr 11, $1,038,074,689
initial spares $402,916,206
2015 – Sep 4, $249,830,014;
2016 – Sep 16, $136,588,895; Sep 29, $16,497,297
sustainment $151,770,483
2015 – Oct 30, $104,290,158; Dec 21, $9,020,915
2016 – Sep 1, $38,459,410
miscellaneous $894,834,260
2016 – Aug 10, $151,664,883; Oct 17, $743,169,377

All of these contracts can be seen by going to defense.gov/News/Contracts — in the archives by date

So the real price of LRIP 9 F-35 is : 11,271,778,966/57= $ 197.75 Millions

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