> Um, what? F22 program cost about $334 million per aircraft and is roughly $60k per hour of flight. > F-35 is a comparative bargain at $95 million and $35k/ho

> Um, what? F22 program cost about $334 million per aircraft and is roughly $60k per hour of flight. > F-35 is a comparative bargain at $95 million and $35k/hour. But that might not be a fair comparison. IIRC, the F-22 project was ended far earlier than originally planned, so development costs were amortized over far fewer planes. According to Wikipedia, there were only 187 non-test F-22s built in total (out of an originally planned 750) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor), but there are already "620+" F-35s and production continues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...).