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A longtime defense analyst and critic of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program says taxpayers next year will pay between $148 million and $337 million per jet, depending on the model.
each of the 29 f 35s the pentagon is purchasing from lockheed in 2014 costs between $ 182 million and $ 299 million and that s leaving out research and development spending since the late 1990s which could soon exceed $ 50 billion and add $ 16 million to true long term acquisition cost of each f 35ost of the f 35 s cost as with every weapon system acquisition program for the initial lots are the large r d sunk costs which must be recovered let s just say lockheed spent $ 10 billion in its own r d money to develop the aircraft