The F-35A, for example, had a purchase order of about $131.9 million apiece, and other F-35s had higher price points. F-35 becomes US military's most expensive weapons system of all time ...

As F-35 observers know and as the table shows, the cost documentation of the F-35 program started in 2001, not 2007. There has been a lot more cost growth than the “$117.2 billion (42 percent ...

It’s another troubling sign for the F-35, which is billed as the stealthiest and most advanced fighter jet ever and sits at the centre of US war planning. Despite its high price tag and ...

A F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, for example, costs only $52 million each. With the F-35A slated to become much cheaper, suddenly cost per aircraft is less of a problem.

Excluding those costs, the average unit recurring flyaway cost of the F-35 would be around $60 million in 2010 dollars, about the same as the U.S. military paid for its fleet of F-16 fighters ...

The other two variants will be more expensive. Next year’s first lot of F-35B jets, which are able to perform vertical landings and takeoffs from short runways, will cost $108 million, then $104 ...

The F-35’s current Pratt & Whitney engine is also driving up program costs, because it’s running twice as hot as it was designed to, requiring earlier and more frequent aircraft maintenance.

While F-35 costs continue to be an all too familiar easy target for many, the concern continues to be taken quite seriously by Pentagon procurement, sustainment, and development officials and F-35 ...

Switzerland said efforts to negotiate a fixed price for the F-35A jet were not successful, making it vulnerable to costs from ...

The government now projects that the total cost to develop, buy and operate the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be $1.51 trillion over the next 50-plus years, according to a ...

Lockheed-Martin’s LMT +2.6% F-35 stealth jet has remained a lightning rod for controversy, but its advocates can point to the jet’s steadily declining unit price in the last six years—down ...

India has rejected offers to purchase both the American F-35 and the Russian Su-57, signaling a major pivot towards strategic autonomy. -New Delhi’s decision is driven by a long-term goal to develop ...