14 Most Expensive Military Operations Since 2000

#3 of 14

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Speaking of expensive military aircraft, here’s a neat little plane we like to call the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. This is the single-engine, single-seat fighter plane that was going to make the whole U.S. Air Force and the air arms of the Navy and Marines go completely stealth, beginning back in 2001. The U.S. military signed on to purchase 2,500 of these babies at the paltry cost of $400 million. Oh, wait… I forgot to mention that’s $400 million each. However, reports did surface in 2013 that the plane’s price tag for the Pentagon had dropped to only about $160 million, depending on whom you believe, of course. In the long run, it’s entirely possible that nobody knows just how much each one of these puppies costs to manufacture, let alone keep in the air, but it’s easy enough to see they aren’t cheap.



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