A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the unit cost of a new fighter jet to replace the F-22 and F-15 C/D at about $300 million and projects the Air Force's yearly procurement spending on the new aircraft will peak in 2030 at about $9 billion in 2018 dollars. The figures are included in a broader review of the potential cost to replace, one-for-one, the Air Force's aging fleet. In the report, released today , CBO estimates that if the...
