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Sunday, March 10, 2013

F-35 Lightning II Program Retrofits To Cost Additional $1.7 Billion

F-35 Lightning II |Solving problems found in flight-testing the planes in the Pentagon's controversial F-35 Lightning II Program, aka the Joint Strike Fighter Program, will most likely cost more than $1.7 billion, Reuters reported Saturday in its coverage of a draft report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO.

The cost of the retrofitting is primarily the result of decisions made to begin building planes before the testing process was further along.

The Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 is a fifth-generation, single-engine, single-seat fighter aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, as well as allied nations.

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