Lockheed's Costly F-35 to Be Billions Costlier, Pentagon Finds
- Research and procurement increases by $22 billion: cost office
- Six decades of operations and support grows by $73 billion
F-35A Lightning II
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Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 jet, the world’s costliest weapons program, just got even costlier.
The estimated total price for research and procurement has increased by $22 billion in current dollars adjusted for inflation, according to the Pentagon’s latest annual cost assessment of major projects. The estimate for operating and supporting the fleet of fighters over more than six decades grew by almost $73 billion to $1.196 trillion.