A few short months after Defense Secretary Gates killed the F-22 Raptor program, the follow-up F-35 Lightining II fighter is also being criticized for being too expensive. It’s jumped from being $179 million per copy to $329 million per copy in the same amount of time.
The reason for the jump is the vertical take off/vertical landing capability, delays in the prototypes and production issues, and other research & development problems.
Defense Secretary Gates is confident that the fighter will stay on track, though the military may not be able to buy as many as they would like.
Why not build more late model F-15s, F-16s, and F-18s instead?
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