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by threeseed 3972 days ago
Just curious. Is there any estimation of the cost of maintaining 6 seperate aircraft versus 1 ?

That is a lot of duplicate parts, engineering effort, training etc.

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Plenty of internal redundancy can be reduced by sharing components and some interfaces. However, it's not redundant if it's a necessary part of solving several different problems. We don't count as redundant buying different hardware for embedded, mobile, laptop, and servers even though they might use same ISA and Linux.