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Ciro Scotti, Fiscal Times: F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go?
Will it ever be clear what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons system in history – has cost American taxpayers?
On Monday, a Pentagon report to Congress predicted that the total cost of developing and producing 2,456 of the stealth jets, up from 2,443, may be as high as $406.5 billion.
As Bloomberg first reported, that possible 7 percent increase — $27.5 billion — in so-called acquisition costs comes after years of declining estimates. It also comes after President Trump’s much-ballyhooed jawboning of Lockheed Martin to bring down costs.
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WNU Editor: Bottom line .... no one has any idea on how much the F-35 program will eventually cost.
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And the LoC.. Just abhorrent what the f35 might do to US air supremacy...
Wow the Graft made on this, people should go to jail over this boondoggle.
People who think that cost of weapons will go to decrease are dreaming. More a weapon is sophisticated more the cost is high.
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