Billion-Dollar Beasts: Exploring the Most Expensive Military Vehicles to Ever Hit the Battlefield

10. Lightning II F-35A

Joined the Service in 2015 Producer: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Price: * $77-901 million The F-35 Lightning II is a class of all-weather, single-engine, single-eat, multirole combat aircraft designed to perform air superiority and strike missions. In addition, the Lightning II offers electronic warfare, intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance.The principal contractor for the F-35 is Lockheed Martin.

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F-35A Lightning II via Twitter.com / @Defence_blog Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems are involved with Lockheed in this initiative, which is expected to cost $1.196 trillion by 2077. The aircraft is an X-35 derivative. NATO and the US's close allies, the UK, Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Italy, are providing partial funding for the project. There are three main models of Lightning: F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C.