Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Program Delayed, But Still Tracking

As expected, the Pentagon will delay acquisition of more than 100 early-model Joint Strike Fighters in a bid to save short-term money and to give more time for testers to work out the finicky F-35 warplane's many technical kinks. But the real surprise is that a newly cash-conscious Defense Department still seems fully committed to buying nearly 2,500 of the stealth jets. Total cost: about a trillion dollars.

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