[jimmydean]

Raptors have got to be somewhere near $100,000/hr to operate, considering all the manpower, operating costs, equipment, R&D, etc. I have some knowledge of what it costs to operate a turbine aircraft just to break even as a business, in addition I've heard the operating costs for the F-15 and 16. The Raptor has got to be way up there, plus by using it you are putting hours on it and decreasing it's service life.

But even at $100k/hour, a 4 hour mission with say 6 Raptors is still only $2.4M, the cost of 2 tomahawks. And you know what? The Raptors SHOULD come back and be able to be used again. No reusing a tomahawk, just sayin.

 

[jimmydean]

Was disappointed when it did not. Was also mildly surprised that the bed appears not to have folded away from the cab, as is common with the Raptor.

I bet at least the Toyota Tacoma Prerunner, while pointless, would not bend jumping in the desert if the frames are anything close to what the old DX frames were like.

 

[DaveW]

Mystery solved, where Apple got the designers of the iPhone 6 chassis.