Sustainment costs for the F-35 are forecasted to exceed $1.5 trillion

The world’s costliest weapons program, Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter jet, is getting even more expensive, according to a government watchdog. Nine years after the Marine Corps declared its first F-35s operational, the Pentagon now projects that the cost of operating and maintaining the jet through 2088 will be $1.58 trillion, 44% higher than originally forecast in 2018, the Government Accountability Office said Monday in a new assessment.

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Don't worry, by the time that they are finished, the cost will be between $3 and $4.5 trillion. Lockheed Martin is very very good at wasting US Government money.

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LM has been one of the causes of cost overruns for the F-35. You are 100% right!