So—The US taxpayer paid how much for this pile of scrap?
In total? I don’t want to know.
Never mind the billions spent on this white elephant. Consider what could have been done instead. The opportunity costs are staggering.
You're not going yo believe this, but....
The Pentagon plans to acquire roughly 2,400 of the radar-evading F-35s in coming decades, at a cost of more than $400 billion
What is 400 billion divided by 2400?
It is 166,666,666.66...