{"id":152840,"date":"2024-11-29T04:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-f-35-isnt-expensive-is-a-fantastically-good-jet\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T04:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:01:23","slug":"why-the-f-35-isnt-that-expensive-is-actually-a-fantastically-good-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=152840","title":{"rendered":"Why The F-35 Isn&#8217;t That Expensive &amp; Is Actually A Fantastically Good Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite decades of negative press, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35 Lightning II<\/a><\/span> is not only the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035264\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-advancements-f-35-block-4-upgrade\/\" >world&#8217;s most advanced tactical fighter jet<\/a><\/span> but also a bargain price when measured by fly-away costs. This may seem strange given how many sensational headlines have been running saying the jet is over budget and will cost $2 trillion over its lifespan (an impressive sounding figure almost never given any context).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flyaway cost of an F-35 is lower than many advanced 4th-generation fighters while offering far more capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152841,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152840\/revisions\/152841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}