Things are busy, and posting is obviously light. I did want to take a few minutes to highlight some pretty nice photo's of the launching of Spain's Juan Carlos I a few weeks ago. According to
Joe Katzman (also
blogs here), Australia is paying about $1.5 billion US a piece for 2 built by Spain. Pretty good deal, but I would remind those wishing for some for the US that they would cost at least $2.3 billion to be built here. Why? Because someone in Congress will want them be nuclear powered. Even without nuclear power they will be more than $1.5 billion in the US though, they would not meet US Navy NVR.
Those ski jumps are not going to contribute much for Australia. People still talk like Australia is buying F-35Bs, but there is still no official plan at all to do so, and they have only expressed government interest to date on the F-35A models. The assumption is that will change. Maybe, but I think they will wait for a V-UCAS in the 2025 time frame.
Tons and tons more
photos from the launch of the Juan Carlos I here.
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