{"id":398726,"date":"2026-04-03T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/main-reason-f-35-expensive\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:00:18","slug":"the-main-reason-why-the-f-35-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=398726","title":{"rendered":"The Main Reason Why The F-35 So Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050627\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-lockheed-martin-f-35-program-cost-2026\/\" >Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is expensive because it is the world&#8217;s most capable and high-end fighter jet<\/a><\/span>. It is an aircraft that is better thought of as a super-sensing, super-fusing supercomputer than a fighter jet in the classic sense. Lockheed Martin has managed to reduce the flyaway costs of the F-35 to surprisingly low levels, but it&#8217;s the add-on, maintenance, and various associated costs that drive up the total expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35 is expensive because it is a one-of-a-kind high end stealth fighter that also performs EV, command center, sensing, and other roles.<\/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":[396,748,628,627,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-lockheed-martin","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398726","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=398726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398727,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398726\/revisions\/398727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}