Boeing said it had submitted a Request for Insight, which calls on the ministry to provide all materials related to its decision in June to procure 27 F-35s and the evaluation that preceded it.
“As we said when the decision was announced, we believe the Ministry’s evaluation of the competitors was fundamentally flawed and inaccurately assessed the cost and capability of the F/A-18 Super Hornet,” Boeing’s vice president for global strike programs, Debbie Rub, said in the statement.
In May, the Danish ministry concluded in a report that the Super Hornet would have a service life of 6,000 flying hours, but Boeing disputes this, saying the aircraft would last 9,500 hours.
The report also estimated the total cost of the Lockheed-made F-35 at 42.2 billion Danish crowns (about $6.4 billion), compared with 60.6 billion crowns for the Super Hornet.