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Lifetime Cost: Yes

Anime-style cartoon in a dark brick bar: a tall caped figure in blue armor with a fighter-jet helmet, labeled The Program, points and says 'Financing available. Through 2088.' A short green figure with a little house for a head, labeled Small Ally, asks 'Can I see the maintenance plan?' Caption: Lifetime cost: yes ($1.7 trillion).
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A fighter jet program with a price tag that needs its own zip code.

What
Lifetime Cost: Yes
When
2026-10-16
Source
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Credit
EXE original cartoon
License
CC BY 4.0
Details
The jet offers financing through 2088. The small country next to it asks to see the maintenance plan. Nobody has one, because nobody has finished reading the invoice. Based on: GAO puts the F-35 program's life-cycle cost above $1.7 trillion, about $1.3 trillion of it for operating and sustaining the fleet. (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2023-09-21).

procurementaircraftbudgetMeme / satire

Sources and credit

  1. U.S. Government Accountability Office
  2. Satire: the full record

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