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Apr 19, 2022 · An hour flying the F-35 costs $36,000 on average, with slight differences depending on the specific variant. In contrast, an hour flying an older-generation Lockheed Martin F-16C Viper fighter jet costs $22,000. While an effort was made to try to reduce the F-35A operating cost to $25,000 by 2025, the Pentagon has judged the ambition to be ...
Mar 7, 2021 · The Air Force is now considering a replacement for its F-16 fighter jet replacement. With an estimated lifetime cost of $1.6 trillion, the F-35 Lightning II, conceived as a versatile, super ...
The current unit price of an F-35A is now $89.2 million and Lockheed predicts this price will fall to $80 million by 2020. The F-35B variant is $115.5 million and the F-35C is $107.7 million. But ...
May 1, 2023 · The estimated cost of an F-35A in 2021 is around $79 million. F-35B is the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant designed for the U.S. Marine Corps, British Royal Navy, and Italian Navy. The estimated cost of an F-35B in 2021 is around $101 million. F-35C is the carrier-based variant designed for the U.S. Navy.
Mar 15, 2013 · The most recent U.S. Defense Department estimates put the current cost of developing, testing and building the F-35 multi-role fighter jet at $396 billion, a forecast that assumes U.S. purchases ...
Jul 24, 2020 · An Air Force order for up to 200 of Boeing’s new version of the F-15 came after a lengthy debate over whether to buy more copies of the less expensive 4.5th generation fighter or fewer copies of ...
Oct 22, 2020 · The unit costs of the Marines’ short-takeoff, vertical-landing B-model and the Navy’s aircraft-carrier-capable C-model are growing. The cost of an F-35B grew from $232 million in 2014 to a bulging $251 million by 2015. The cost of the Navy’s F35C grew from $273 million in 2014 to a wallet-busting $337 million by 2015.
