The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced fighter jet flying today. It boasts the world’s greatest production numbers, with the asterisk that there are high levels of uncertainty around those of Chinese jets. This high level of production has kept the per-unit flyaway costs low compared with other fourth-generation fighter jets currently in production.
The F-35 is the most heavily reported jet in the media, which leads to an information bias where the public is informed about its delays, cost overruns, and crashes, but not informed to the same degree about similar issues in other families of jets. The F-35 program is famously expensive, but that is expected of such a high-end fighter. While the per-unit costs of the F-35 are reasonable, the higher expenses…more
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