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Originally Posted by corby78
Defense News has an article about every 2-3 weeks on whether or not they are going to re-outfit the C-5 with the new engines. Not sure why but they had like doubled the cost to do the job.
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Originally Posted by C-Rex
^^Well when will they pull themselves together. I thought it was already set to be re-outfitted with those GE CF6-80C2's !!
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Originally Posted by Justino
I think there are 2-3 C-5Ms now and theyre all out at Edwards doing testing. But in the meantime the budget for these things is skyrocketing and Congress and the Air Force aren't thrilled about that.
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According to the article below, there are 3 C-5Ms so far with 47 to be converted from C-5Bs and 2 from C-5Cs. The other 62 C-5As will no longer be modernised:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...-lockheed.html
"Cancelling work on the older C-5s will cut the estimated cost of the RERP from $17.5 billion to $7.7 billion, saving $9.8 billion. The projected cost when the 115-aircraft programme started in November 2001 was $11.1 billion."
The question is, why and how did the projected cost of the RERP ballooned more than 57% from $11.1B to $17.5B?