Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "China's Drones: A Joke? They Can’t Copycat Anymore! Chips and AI Technology Are Choking The CCP" video.

Whoa, let’s settle down about cost effectiveness. The NGAD which feature drone wingman is going to cost $300M per plane, lol.
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@tonysu8860 The Sandboxx guy did a good write up. Basically, all of our planes cost $300M, lol. (inflation adjusted) The only way you get the price way lower is to produce a ton of them (amortize the R&D). The big difference is the contract structure: the Air Force is reshaping how it executes fighter contracts, separating design and production from long-term sustainment to force competition between firms, and perhaps most important of all, ensuring Uncle Sam owns at least a significant portion of the “data rights” or intellectual property associated with the new fighter and its design, rather than allowing a corporation to maintain a monopoly on the fighter going forward. They are trying to avoid the F35 mess. Sandboxx had the ratio at least 3-1 with plane vs drones.
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