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Where are you getting hundreds of billions? Wikipedia says "As production wound down in 2011, the total program cost is estimated to be about $67.3 billion, wi
by mrep 5y ago
Where are you getting hundreds of billions? Wikipedia says "As production wound down in 2011, the total program cost is estimated to be about $67.3 billion, with $32.4 billion spent on Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and $34.9 billion on procurement and military construction (MILCON) in then year dollars."
- blobcode 5y agoAlthough not the F-22, modern fighters such as the F-35 can cost 100's of billions of dollars in R&D[0] (~150 billion iirc, with ~1.3 trillion total program cost). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...