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£16 billion in inflation-adjusted development costs is peanuts.

You should look at the costs of the F-35 :)



But of the F-35 there are >1000 planes to amortise the costs over. Which is two orders of magnitude larger than the concorde


F35s are now selling for $81m on average per plane - https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-35-program-office-lockhe...

And yes, the program is expensive but there will be thousands of F35s by the end of it all (1000+ already)




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