Buy Raptor instead of JSF, says Labor
Published: Thu Apr 6th, 2006Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au
LABOR wants the Government to review its plan to buy up to 100 joint strike fighters, arguing instead for the purchase of F/A-22 Raptor stealth fighters.Labor's defence spokesman, Robert McClelland, says in a speech to be delivered at ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre today that buying a smaller number of the tried and proven F/A-22s would address a possible gap in combat air power after the retirement of the F-111 bombers from 2010.
He says the Government has failed to provide sufficient detailed justification for the $12billion JSF purchase in preference to the more expensive F/A-22, including far more precise costings.
"In so far as cost has been a major issue in the decision to purchase the JSF over the
F/A-22, it appears that the cost differential between the two aircraft is significantly less than anticipated," he says..
Defence has estimated the fly-away cost of the JSF at about $US45million ($63million) while the F/A-22 fighters now in production cost about $US153million each.
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