As unsurprising as it is to see you making things up off the top of your head, I believe two Typhoons would set you back ~£140m
yeah right - double that and you get nearer the real figures. especially when you take into account the plans to scrap the first 130 or so to make way for the last few which I read a few years back with the three tranche thing to stop the whole program from collapsing when the french pulled out
original estimate 7 billion actual cost closer to 19 billion - so that's 82 million or so per airframe purchase price without the fitted fors being added.
typhoons extra budget was paid for by cuts. IIRC if we'd cut our order to what we actually needed they would have ended up at around 125 million each and still not be fitted for anything at least this way we will have plenty of expensive spare parts. they've fed us crap about it from day one, like that stunt with them escorting russians away from our shores but the plane that took the released photos and carried the weapons to shoot down the intruders was a tornado. same with ellamy - typhoons had to go as they needed to sell it but they couldn't have done it without the tornado.
still 16,000 brits are employed making them so that makes it okay
we should have built three carriers and swapped one for rafales and service contracts under entente cordial but we would probably have demanded so many mods to it, it would be unable to fly.
