t68
Well-Known Member
What we budget and what the DSCA budgets are two entirely different thinks. Our budget can include a multitude of different things from infrastructure to operation & maintenance while the DSCA listed figure is for the most part just hardware.
All other FMS regarding the CH-47F are in the range of $80-$125m USD per a bird with standard spares and support for new builds, at $65m or less ours are definitely second hand, the US likes us but they won't be giving us brand new birds below cost not to mention everything states they are coming from US stocks, not US order slots but US stocks.
These maybe the air frames that are being re-manufactured from D into F's. Apparently the US was doing that to about 300 units
CH-47D Chinook | Military.com
All the DSCA media release regarding the ADF and Chinook prices are just divided by the estimated cost to aircraft
April 23, 2009 Defense Security Cooperation Agency (dsca.mil) 80m per copy
Dec. 21, 2015 Defense Security Cooperation Agency (dsca.mil) 60m per copy
April 29, 2021 press_release-australia_21-41_cn.pdf (dsca.mil) 64.75m per copy