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Cost of upgrading F-35 reduced by $920 million

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The Pentagon projected that it will only have to spend $1.65 billion instead of $2.57 billion to upgrade and fix problems found on early production batches of the F-35.

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One thought on “Cost of upgrading F-35 reduced by $920 million”

  1. Now, I may just be a simple minded person, but when you purchase a jet at around $85 MILLION, why do you have to spend $1.65 BILLION to fix a problem with it?

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