Hideously expensive F-35 fighter jet runs into yet more problems

Hideously expensive F-35 fighter jet runs into yet more problems

Auditors working on behalf of the United States Congress have concluded that engines made for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program are so unreliable that production of jets is likely to be slowed, Bloomberg reports. The hideously expensive program, which has repeatedly ballooned in cost, has been described even by leaders within the Pentagon as a money pit. Each F-35 costs close to or north of hundred million dollars to make, while the total cost of the program is said to be around $1.5 trillion – that’s trillion, with a t.