"Top Secret Air Force Bomber Program Moves Forward " Topic

"It is a program shrouded in secrecy.

Air Force officials over the past few years have been happy to talk publicly about how much they need a new long-range strike bomber, but have given it a "secret" classification and share few other details.

But after a half-decade of discussions about what the aircraft should be in unclassified settings, 2014 has seen some revelations and movement in the program…"

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$550 USD million per bomber. Yeah that will happen, bet it is more like a billion or more.

Someone's is going to have to get more $$$ from the Land of China …

Eric Fanning, undersecretary of the Air Force, told Washington, D.C.- based reporters in March that the service was sticking to its $550 USD million per aircraft estimate.

"We are still using that as a pretty firm chalk line for those companies that are bidding on it," he said. There are skeptics who believe the $550 USD million price is too low, and that the Air Force will not get the requirements out of the bomber that it needs, he said.

"This is keeping both the Air Force and the contractors pretty disciplined about what they put into the bomber," he said.

The price of $550 USD million per aircraft figure does not factor in the development costs, he said. He didn't know what the per-unit cost what be if the R&D was added, but it wouldn't double it, he said.

Emphasis mine.

Answers that question!