{"id":397833,"date":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-mass-production-fighter-jet-keeps-down-price\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:30:24","slug":"how-the-mass-production-of-this-fighter-jet-keeps-its-price-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=397833","title":{"rendered":"How The Mass Production Of This Fighter Jet Keeps Its Price Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045452\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/country-most-superior-5th-generation-fighter-jets\/\" >Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced fighter jet flying today<\/a><\/span>. It boasts the world&#8217;s greatest production numbers, with the asterisk that there are high levels of uncertainty around those of Chinese jets. This high level of production has kept the per-unit flyaway costs low compared with other fourth-generation fighter jets currently in production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over a thousand F-35s built and thousands more on order, the F-35&#8217;s flyaway costs can be lower than some fourth-generation fighter jets.<\/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":[396,748,412,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-military","category-north-america","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\/397833","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=397833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397835,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397833\/revisions\/397835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}