Didn't meet budget: First base with F-35 fighters in Europe is too expensive

Work to build the first base outside the United States for a 5th generation F-35 multipurpose aircraft is ongoing, but it is already costing too much. It was not possible to meet the estimate. Does the increase in the cost of building facilities at the Lukenheath base in the UK mean that the cost of building similar bases in Poland will also increase?

The Polish edition of Defense 24 argues on this topic.

In 2015, it was estimated that the reconstruction of the Lakenheath base would cost the American taxpayer $ 480 million. It is planned to deploy two American squadrons, each of which is equipped with 24 aircraft. At the same time, the infrastructure under construction involves the reception of a larger number of these powerful and complex combat vehicles. This is done in case of a possible arrival of reinforcements from the United States.

Work at Lakenheath began last July. Their main part was to be completed by early November 2021. Some of the infrastructure facilities under construction are ready, but others are facing delays.

According to Defense News, it turned out that the estimate had grown by about 25 percent, that is, by $ 90 million, and the completion date was postponed. Justifying the increase in costs and the shift in terms, contractors cite the emergence of additional difficulties and the associated increase in labor costs for the personnel involved in the work.

Therefore, Defense 24 assumes that the cost of creating similar facilities for the American Air Force in Poland will also exceed estimates.

Comments

[mitroha]

25% is still a decent rise in price, and these are not the last figures, most likely. $ 600 million and this is not from scratch, but reconstruction

[Insurgent]

Didn't meet budget: First base with F-35 fighters in Europe is too expensive

Somehow not new All, which is somehow connected with the F-35 Lightning II, does not fit into the estimate ...

Not surprised We got used to

[mvg]

Everything related to Donbass also does not fit into the budget of the Russian Federation. And also for several years. Feed ragamuffins like you, and the result is "nullsen"

[Private-K]

Quote: mvg

Everything related to Donbass also does not fit into the budget of the Russian Federation. And also for several years. Feed ragamuffins like you, and the result is "nullsen"

And what should be the result? They had to take Kharkov / Dnepr / Kiev on their own?

[Insurgent]

Quote: mvg

Everything related to Donbass also does not fit into the budget of the Russian Federation. And also for several years. Feed ragamuffins like you, and the result is "nullsen"

What are we, Donbass, to you personally did that make you flood so furiously in an article about the infrastructure around the F-35 Lightning II -? ? ?

Or is it me, you somewhere, once, personally stepped on your tail?

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Insurgent

Somehow not new Everything that is somehow connected with the F-35 Lightning II does not fit into the estimate ...

Not surprised

I would be surprised if it was the other way around.

That's what it is designed for.

[dzvero]

So they have not yet guessed to put a stealth cover on the concrete runway ... it is useless for an invisible person to fly with a visible aerodrome. Before the various congresses and senates with parliaments there will be

[mvg]

to put a stealth cover on the runway concrete

They spent the stealth cover on your brain, it is not appropriate to pretend to be sentient with such comments. Not like a kid or something

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: dzvero

So they have not yet guessed to put a stealth cover on the concrete runway ... it is useless for an invisible person to fly with a visible aerodrome. Before the various congresses and senates with parliaments there will be

Ratsuha for the American GDP - stealth-coated aviation missile bombs. So that the enemy does not see what is flying towards him. And you can siphon the dough for this - you are already dizzy ...

[Simargl]

Quote: Zoldat_A

stealth-coated aviation missile bombs.

You late. Already done.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Simargl

Quote: Zoldat_A

stealth-coated aviation missile bombs.

You late. Already done.

Well, well ... I last I was at war for a long time. My father, my grandfather and great-grandfather - and even more so. Since then, perhaps something has changed. What I don’t know.

[Simargl]

AGM-154, for example. Planning BoNba

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Simargl

AGM-154, for example. Planning BoNba

The Airborne Forces catches such boNby with their hands and saws them on spoons for trout fishing.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: dzvero

It is useless for an invisible person to fly with a visible aerodrome.

This is yes. The radar screen will show the runway and the invisible contours of the F-35.
So you have thrown a valuable thought. Billions can be explored at this airfield. And for many years ...

[Sergey39]

Quote: Mitroha

25% is still a decent rise in price

In any case, one Iskander missile with special ammunition costs much less than the cost of building such a base in Poland.

[TermNachTer]

Yes, for such grandmother, it was possible to otrohat base in an open field. Fools and embezzlers are not only a Russian problem))))

[culinary]

Well ... Not very good by Russian standards.
How much did the Olympic facilities rise in price?
What is the cost of key facilities in the Russian Federation? The cosmodrome and other Rogozin's projects ...

[Vicontas]

So we wish Poland many times more of the same bases as in Great Britain!

[smart ass]

It's cheap when you print the bucks yourself

[tatarin_ru]

It turns out that not only our stadiums are being built for 10 years for space money, those that are at the expense of the budget, striped ones are also not averse to sawing something from the state.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: tatarin_ru

, striped also do not mind to cut something from the state.

So they are also real people and they also want to eat sweetly

[Cyril G ...]

Our sawmills are just children compared to their sawers. Their money for the Ministry of Defense simply evaporates ...

[askort154]

tatarin_ru ...It turns out that not only our stadiums are being built for 10 years for space money, those that are at the expense of the budget, striped ones are also not averse to sawing something from the state.

Their "experience" came to us. As well as "pop culture".
In the USSR, the term “to cut the budget,” or “a secret for a million,” “a woman without complexes,” “who has bigger breasts,” etc., did not fit into the human mind at that time. Now it is an integral part of modern "morality", not to mention same-sex marriage. As women say, "with whom you lead, from that you get pregnant." Russia in the 90s "became pregnant with capitalism", what will be born as a result is still not clear. And the gestation period is not long, only 30 years.

[Vadivak]

Quote: askort154

Russia in the 90s "became pregnant with capitalism", what will be born as a result is still not clear.

Binom Newton too

If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer: they drink and steal ... Saltykov Shchedrin

[dsaf]

They drank less.
This is confirmed by statistics and seen in life, especially among young people.
But to steal ...
The fish rots from the head!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: tatarin_ru

It turns out that not only our stadiums are being built for 10 years for space money, those that are at the expense of the budget, striped ones are also not averse to sawing something from the state.

Ours learn from them.

[Shraik]

Timing to the right, price up. A common thing in military construction. Also news to me.

[RUnnm]

Eh, still Rogozin and Serdyukov would send them to supervise the construction site and one could consider that the job is done ...
In general, increasing the financial expenses of potential friends is just fine ...

[Lipchanin]

They have enough of their own. No worse than our specialists

[RUnnm]

So this is understandable, but we would have fewer such "specialists" ...

[Lipchanin]

A holy place is never empty. The queue is

[Narcologist]

Quote: Lipchanin

A holy place is never empty. The queue is

To the point Sergey !!!! The queue for 10 years already ...

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Narkolog

The queue for 10 years already ..

Well, it depends on what terms will be received by those who get caught and who will actually be imprisoned

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Lipchanin

They have enough of their own. No worse than our specialists

Our children, in comparison with their specialists, are small ...

[Uncle lee]

Quote: RUnnm

Rogozin and Serdyukov

And Rotenberg to help. You look and the Star of the Hero of Capitalist Labor will receive!

[Narcologist]

Quote: Uncle Lee

Quote: RUnnm

Rogozin and Serdyukov

And Rotenberg to help. You look and the Star of the Hero of Capitalist Labor will receive!

Well, the Jews in Russia remained quiet and not greedy .. Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky are examples of them .. Unfasten for the good of the country and get angry

[dsaf]

Well you do!
Berezovsky died a long time ago!

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: dsaf

Well you do!
Berezovsky died a long time ago!

Berezovsky died, but his business, or rather his affairs, live on.
There are places where you throw a stick - you will fall into a follower of Berezovsky.

[Lipchanin]

It is planned to deploy two American squadrons, each equipped with 24 aircraft. At the same time, the infrastructure under construction involves the reception of a larger number of these powerful and complex combat vehicles. This is done in case of a possible arrival of reinforcements from the United States.

Do they really think that Russia is going to attack them?
But if you decide to start a war on your own, then in a serious scenario, there simply will not be a winner

[RUnnm]

Of course not. It's just business. Nothing personal...

[iouris]

And this is a non-aerodrome-based aircraft "
Munchausen will declare war on England on the 32nd I don't remember what year. They won't have time.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: iouris

don't remember what year

Now I climbed the search engine on the tynet, there is no answer

[Alexey Sommer]

Again we count other people's money.
If there are not enough of our own, then it is interesting to consider strangers, and if there are a little of our own, then I do not care about others.

[Narcologist]

Quote: Alexey Sommer

Again we count other people's money.
If there are not enough of our own, then it is interesting to consider strangers, and if there are a little of our own, then I do not care about others.

Well, yours in Russia started counting back in the 90s .. How long will we last!
Now our time has come to laugh at the attempts of the West .. he he
How they stubbornly snatch the expensive and raw F-35 to their vassals ..

[Alexey Sommer]

Good afternoon!
We lost not because it was expensive, but because traitors ruled, and they still have no fact ...

[Narcologist]

Quote: Alexey Sommer

Good afternoon!

Kind as anyone ...

Quote: Alexey Sommer

We lost not because it was expensive, but because traitors ruled, and they still have no fact ...

The traitors ruled, and the people were on their own ...

[dsaf]

Every nation deserves its own government.
This applies to Russia in full measure.

[Gloomy skeptic]

As always, there is not enough dough. Here's how to cut budgets. Our embezzlers are terribly far from the Anglo-Saxon thieves.

[Viktor Sergeev]

Have you tried to steal less?

[Ruswolf]

Quote: Victor Sergeev

Have you tried to steal less?

Do not prompt.
Don't bother the Americans. They fulfill Putin's task - the ruin of neighbors.

[rocket757]

We didn’t meet the budget, pf-e what a trifle, by a quarter of everything, yet.
We have something for budgetary funds, it would not be considered a problem at all.

[askort154]

Therefore, Defense 24 assumes that the cost of creating similar facilities for the American Air Force in Poland will also exceed estimates.

Duda has already promised to allocate up to 4 billion for the construction of the US base, although Poland is sitting on EU subsidies. Brussels is considering reducing subsidies to all eastern EU countries from 2021 by 47 billion euros. , redirecting them to help the southern EU countries. Brussels is unhappy that the "Young NATO members" are paying to the NATO (US) budget the funds they receive as subsidies. So, for example - Germany pays only 1,4% of its GDP (which infuriates Trump), and the countries sitting on EU subsidies: Estonia, Poland, etc. regularly pay 2%. That is, they pay out of the common pocket of the EU. In this regard, there is a big discord in the EU. As a result, sooner or later, "Old Europe" will have to create its own armed forces.

[Ruswolf]

Normal Normal! Americans are great!
They said - We protect you, and you pay, build for us. You give more bases.
Maybe after that the brains will start working when mice are hung in refrigerators on a national scale.

[sav]

Poland will swallow any excess of the budget, probably even thank you - after all, this is for the defenders from the "barbarians from the East"

[Andrey.AN]

Brexit may have affected the price. Now this base is not at all interesting for the EU, as the union of the union, it is more difficult for the Americans to present it as a contribution to NATO, the base covers Britain from the EU, rather, the English Channel.

[voyaka uh]

Britain has left the EU, but not NATO.
Americans are leaving Germany.
Large American air bases will remain in Britain and Italy.
The NATO Aviation Center is likely to replace the German Air Force with its Typhoons and Poland, which will receive 50 F-35s by 2030.

[orionvitt]

Everything is fine, let them build and produce, and more. As at one time, the USSR was dragged into the arms race (after which tens of thousands of unclaimed aircraft, tanks and other weapons remained), so now, on the basis of hysteria with the "Russian threat", they are drawing themselves. You can only hear from all sides how expensive everything is. No matter how overstrained. Let them push. And then the crisis arrived. We'll see.

[Ros 56]

It's okay, Eastern European lackeys will pay.

[Vitaly gusin]

In 2015 year it was estimated that the reconstruction of the Lakenheath base would cost the American taxpayer $ 480 million.
But this article has more
"The general trend has been that projects are being delayed and also over budget," he told Defense News in a July interview. “Many of the assumptions made back in 2015 were not necessarily correct. There has been an increase in costs beyond planning assumptions, made back in 2015 ”.
Despite the delays, the Air Force still plans to continue working on the supply of aircraft. According to current plans, F-35 pilots and maintenance technicians will begin arriving at RAF Lakenheath in June 2021, with the first aircraft arriving in November. The base will eventually become home to two F-35 squadrons, each with 24 aircraft.
I hope you understand that 25% of the 2015 price is perfectly acceptable.

[Rostislav Prokopenko]

Well, in our country, they periodically put someone in prison for corruption. And there it is called lobbyism and all the norm

[APASUS]

According to Defense News, it turned out that the estimate had grown by about 25 percent, that is, by $ 90 million, and the completion date was postponed.

Standard practice among Americans. Now there will be articles in the media that the Russians are about to attack and the missing money will immediately be found. And so a couple of times

[Mimino]

Nothing! It's not Americans who pay, and that's good!

[fider]

Worry about the cost of RF bases. You don't pay for NATO bases.