The F-35 Lightning II is not just the most expensive aircraft ever built. Costing in the general vicinity of $400 billion dollars or so, it is the most expensive weapon ever built – by far.
By how far? Well, the latest generation aircraft carrier – the Ford class, which is the first new design since the first of the Nimitz class carriers was commissioned in 1975 – is itself over-budget at $13 billion dollars per ship. In other words, for the money already spent on the F-35 project, you could purchase thirty of the newest, largest and most advanced aircraft carriers in the world.
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