The price is not for a functioning airplane.
On Dec. 12,
2016, president-elect Donald Trump asserted that F-35 unit cost was “out
of control” through his preferred medium Twitter. On Dec. 19, 2016,
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, in charge of the Joint Strike
Fighter project, gave the press his version of things.
Multiple media outlets
passed along the officer’s comments, but with no analysis of the
completeness and accuracy of Bogdan’s assertions. The reports offered no
context or alternative views on the stealth fighter’s actual cost per
plane.
The
general said each one of the Air Force’s F-35A would cost $102.1
million, while both the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35Bs and and U.S. Navy’s
F-35Cs would set the taxpayer back 132 million each. Those costs average
to approximately $122 million for a “generic” F-35
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F35 is shit? So is the F-22.
ReplyDeleteWe have had shit airplanes for the past 20 years.
An aircraft that can only fly if the computer is working? Who came up with that brilliant idea?
DeleteThe F-35 may never be ready for combat.
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Thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2016/12/may-never-be-ready-for-combat-f-35.html
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