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> funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into the military industrial complex What's the total spending on the F-35 program so far, going back to 2006?

• gknoy 7y ago
  > The total cost of the F-35 program is expected to be $1.5 trillion over its 55-year lifespan As of 2018, the estimated program cost was ~1.5T, or 1500 billion dollars. """The F-35 currently costs between $94 million (F-35A) and $122 million (F-35B) for low-rate initial production run 10, though sustainment cost projections are as big a concern as production costs for a program that is expected to cost $1.5 trillion over its 55-year lifespan.""" https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/09/04/f-35-program-update/ https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/09/04/f-35-program-update...
  • csb6 7y ago
    And people have the gall to say we can’t afford universal healthcare. “Oh, but now that money is lost, and now we actually can’t afford to spend money on our own citizens,” say the next couple generations of warhawks as we spend $2.7 trillion on a drone army made of caviar. We can do better things with our money.
• jml7c5 7y ago
  "Through FY2017, the F-35 program has received a total of roughly $122.6 billion of funding in then-year dollars, including roughly $54.7 billion in research and development, about $65.7 billion in procurement, and approximately $2.7 billion in military construction." via https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL30563.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL30563.pdf