Big price increase in fighter aircraft-hangar

the Cost to taxpayers for the hangar that will house F35-kampflyene, is shot violently in the weather.

the 450 million dollars is the price of the F35-the base at Skrydstrup has increased since the project was adopted three years ago. The latest cost estimate on the hangars and workshops for the Defence new fighter jet sounds now at 1.1 billion. crowns.

It writes bbc News.

– The expected cost to build and implement have evolved in line with the, the construction project has been matured and the department of defense Ejendomsstyrelse have been able to draw on experience from among others Norway, writing on the uk continental shelf in a written reply to DR News.

The first copies of the F35-kampflyene arrive at Air base Skrydstrup in the spring of 2023. Here it is supposed that hangars, workshops and office buildings will be ready for occupation.

Kampflyene must stay in the open hangar constructions, so-called ‘hangaretter’, which do not protect against attacks in the event of crisis or war.

In 2017 was estimated that the F35-the plant would cost 650 million dollars. In 2018, it was decided, out of consideration for the støjramte the neighbors to move the plant to another area of the flyvestationen. The maneuver cost the lives of 260 million crowns.

since then, spending has increased by a further dkk 190 million, so the today represents 1.1 billion. crowns. According to the department of defense Ejendomsstyrelse due to the fact that we now have come so far with the work, so there is a concrete project proposals.

– In the process, among other things, estimated increased costs for site development, the establishment of the heating station, the surrounding infrastructure, the management of occupational health and safety and the guarding of the construction site, writes the department of defense Ejendomsstyrelse, which at the same time inform, that the medudgifterne can be kept within flyindkøbets economy.

Bent Bøgsted, defense for the Danish people’s Party, is not satisfied.

– You should perhaps have investigated it somewhat more closely with the noise before you planned, where the hangar should be. It has not been, and now it has been placed in a new location, it makes it more expensive, but the additional cost can easily be downloaded into the savings that comes on flyindkøbet, says Bent Bøgsted, defense for the Danish people’s Party.

the Danish Parliament decided in 2016 to allocate 20 billion. crowns for the purchase of F35 fighter aircraft of the u.s. våbenproducent Lockheed Martin.Since then, Denmark has several times experienced the price drop on the planes.

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