[Fish Speaker]

This is another example of how the industrial complex has captured the military and is trying to dictate how much the US government will pay for what it wants.

[P8riot]

Sure, just give the contract to Boeing.

[Night Hides Not]

You can buy thousands of drones for the cost of one fighter.

[rdcbn1]

The price Lockheed was trying to hit us for the F-35A was about 110 million a copy.

Trump negotiated a price of $80 million a shipset once full rate production was finally established, which was not that far from the price of a new F-16.

If the new 6th gen fighter is a single engine it should come in around 95 million.

Why?

Because we have already made all of the hard and expensive R&D investments in the key technology building blocks in the F-35 program. .

[antidemoncrat]

“As the US Air Force reassesses its plans for a sixth-generation fighter jet, its top civilian said the service wants to get the price per plane down to F-35 levels, about a third of what it originally projected it would pay”

Hey, no problemo ... Just take all the money slated to continue to make all of America woke and viola, problem solved.

[Captainpaintball]

I do not think they are even trying to produce the best product anymore. They are this greedy and corrupt.

[montag813]

Anduril is going to produce hundreds of AI-piloted mini-jets for a fraction of the cost.

[Bookshelf]

Only if it is pilotless. No more McCains.

[BobL]

Have the Russians build it. It will be reliable and cheap.