F-35 Lightning II F-35 F-35 F-35 Lightning II Costs can be radically reduced, writes Breaking Defense, referring to the Lockheed Martin forecast.
In particular, the company predicts approximately 40 percent decrease in its cost share per hour of the fighter flight by 2025. For the Pentagon, the service F-35 Lightning II, as they assure in the corporation, will be even cheaper to the same time.
Now the cost of the flight hour F-35 Lightning II, as Breaking Defense assures, is 33 thousand dollars. It is planned that by 2025 it will reach 25 thousand (in prices in 2012).