{"id":47368,"date":"2018-11-16T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47368"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:39:56","slug":"lockheed-martin-awarded-usd-22-7-billion-pentagon-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/lockheed-martin-awarded-usd-22-7-billion-pentagon-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin awarded USD 22.7 billion Pentagon contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York<br \/>\nThe Pentagon on Wednesday announced it had awarded Lockheed Martin a USD 22.7 billion contract for 255 F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>Of the aircraft, 106 are destined for the US military: 64 F-35As for the Air Force, 26 F-35Bs for the Marines, and 16 F-35Cs for the Navy, while the rest are destined for foreign customers, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A major Pentagon supplier, Lockheed Martin will receive a USD 6 billion advance for the order, due to be completed in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the work on the jets will be performed in the US, with some will be carried out in countries including Britain and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in the early 1990s, the F-35 program is considered the most expensive weapons system in US history, with an estimated cost of some USD 400 billion and a goal to produce 2,500 aircraft in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Once servicing and maintenance costs for the F-35 are factored in over the aircraft\u2019s lifespan through 2070, overall program costs are expected to rise to USD 1.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pentagon figures from early October, 320 F-35s have been delivered worldwide, including 245 in the US.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York The Pentagon on Wednesday announced it had awarded Lockheed Martin a USD 22.7 billion contract for 255 F-35 fighter jets. Of the aircraft, 106 are destined for the US military: 64 F-35As for the Air Force, 26 F-35Bs for the Marines, and 16 F-35Cs for the Navy, while the rest are destined for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47370,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368\/revisions\/47370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}