F-22 and F-35 unit cost reference ($200M)

Appears in 1 lecture.

Appearances across the corpus

SSW_S2013_08 · Solid State Welding, Spring 2013 · §4.p3

If you're talking about a commercial aircraft, you say, well, 200 times 200 is only 40,000. But if you're talking military aircraft, you're really talking about a thousand dollars a pound. So you're talking $200,000 per aircraft, and if they have multiple engines, you're talking half a million dollars. Nowadays the F-22 and the F-35 are costing $200 million apiece, so you may say that's not that much, but it's still worth something. The numbers add up pretty quick when you start getting into some of these aerospace components.