F-35 Lightning II Costs
click on photographs to enlarge
With the per-plane purchase cost of the F-35 apparently settling around $165 million, the Pentagon is now trying to reduce the far larger cost of flying and upgrading the jets over decades. The chief instrument will be performance-based contracts, which DoD thinks might shave 10 to 15 percent from a total cost estimated at up to $1 trillion, Defense One‘s Marcus Weisgerber reports.
Related:
60 Minutes Report
F-35 Lightning photographs from the Air Force website
Retiree News 
Comments are closed.