$12,548,710.60. — the cost, per drone, of 10 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft the Air Force announced Monday that it is buying. Drones are a lot of things, but cheap ain't necessarily one of them. Nov 6, 2012
The key word was “relatively.”
“The cost estimates in the NDAA for the cheapest version of the F-35, the Air Force’s F-35A, are the following. (Note these costs as just for production and do not include R&D.). “The 2014 procurement cost for 19 F-35As will be $2.989 billion.”