I don’t have a citation for you at the moment, but I recall reading estimates of something like 4,500 F-35s anticipated to be produced over the program’s lifesp

I don’t have a citation for you at the moment, but I recall reading estimates of something like 4,500 F-35s anticipated to be produced over the program’s lifespan. I think I also recall that being something like a 50/50 split between the United States and the rest of the world, but I’m even hazier on that. Taking a quick glance through the table you linked, the closest equivalent I saw was the F-4, which is a multirole fighter that was used by the US Navy and Air Force as well as broadly around the world. About 5,200 of those were ultimately produced, and that number is close to what I recall reading about anticipated F-35 production. For a variety of reasons, it’s a very different world now from when the F-4 was introduced but on balance a mid-four-figure production run for the F-35 feels about right.