Meaning of âlong-windedâ in the English Dictionary. long-winded in British English. long-windedadjective. âº A long-winded speech, letter, article, etc. is too long, or uses too many words.
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.
The controversial, so-called fifth generation fighter, the F-35, still in development, is slated to cost from $114 to $142 million per unit in the early stages of production. The B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber costs a min-boggling $2.2 billion.Itâs capable of carrying 40,000 pounds of bombs, including nuclear. You seldom hear the cost of one nuclear weapon itemized, perhaps because itâs difficult to do.ut in his new Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists column, the Institute of Policy Studyâs own Robert Alvarez attempts to do just that. In 2015, the United States has an estimated 7,300 nuclear weapons, but the average annual per-unit cost is about $1.8 millionâa 500 percent increase in per-warhead cost.