{"id":25006,"date":"2024-04-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/most-expensive-military-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:00:12","slug":"top-5-the-worlds-most-expensive-military-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=25006","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: The World&#8217;s Most Expensive Military Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Manhattan Project was not the most expensive program of World War Two &#8211;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-29-superfortress-bomber-guide\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">it was the B-29 Superfortress program that cost $3 billion<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Today, aircraft remain some of the most expensive military projects in the world &#8211; an aircraft development that goes wrong can break the military industry of smaller nations. Aircraft get more expensive when they are produced in small numbers as there are fewer aircraft with which to share the development costs. It may come as a surprise that the<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">F-35 Lightning II<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, criticized for years for being extremely expensive, is not among the top five most expensive military aircraft.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force possesses some of the world&#8217;s costliest military aircraft, and even more expensive types are on the way.<\/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":[1258,1701,396,7038,853,412,5684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-air-force-one","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-c-17-globemaster","category-military","category-p-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.8 - 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