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Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by killzone(m): 2:25pm On Jul 31, 2014
Abeg one question shey Nigeria get any of this planes even the used ones
Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by DaBullIT(m): 7:07am On Aug 01, 2014
ZeusAyo: and who would sell the B2 spirit to you undecided undecided the USA grin grin grin

When there's money involved even ISIS can buy active nukes from US
Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by DaBullIT(m): 7:17am On Aug 01, 2014
killzone: Abeg one question shey Nigeria get any of this planes even the used ones

Na Yam ? Jona use the money pay MEND
Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by Nobody: 8:35am On Aug 01, 2014
Wish super rich and influential igbo men would purchase it to help fight the biafra cause (bomb nigeria)
Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by Hyzink(m): 11:38pm On Aug 01, 2014
Walahi, ah m luvin dis cheesy
Re: Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes by Lantean(m): 10:47am On Jan 13, 2015
kizbad:
As the military technology advances, these most expensive military aircraft in the world were created.
For the need of more powerful means of defense, flying military technology is/was developed.
Even creating a highly cost military equipment is not debatable by some people as it’s wasting government’s money, but the show must go on. Here’s the Top 10 most expensive military aircraft ever made in the world.
B-2 Spirit: $2.4 billion

The B-2 bomber was so costly that Congress cut its initial 1987 purchase order from 132 to 21...
(A 2008 crash leaves the current number at 20.) The B-2 is hard to detect via infrared, acoustic, electromagnetic, visual or radar signals. This stealth capability makes it able to attack enemy targets with less fear of retaliation. In use since 1993, the B-2 has been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
F-22 Raptor: $350 million

First conceived during the Cold War as an airframe to vie with Soviet aircraft that was never built, the F-22 is touted by manufacturer Lockheed Martin as the best overall combat plane in the world — not to mention the most expensive. It can shoot down enemy cruise missiles, fly long distances at supersonic speeds and avoid nearly all types of radar detection. But the Senate debate over whether to build seven more — at a taxpayer cost of $1.67 billion — eventually came down to the plane’s job-creating abilities. The axed project would have employed 25,000 Americans.
C17A Globemaster III: $328 million

The Air Force military-transport plane is used to move troops into war zones, perform medical evacuations and conduct airdrop missions. There are 190 C17As in service; the aircraft is propelled by four turbofan engines (of the same type used on the twin-engine Boeing 757) and can drop 102 paratroopers at once. In operation since 1993, it has been used to deliver troops and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Iraq.
P-8A Poseidon: $290 million

Boeing’s spruced-up military version of its 737 jet will be used by the Navy to conduct anti-submarine warfare and gather intelligence. It can carry torpedoes, missiles, depth charges and other weapons. The P-8A is expected to go into service in 2013.
VH-71 Kestrel: $241 million

This high-tech helicopter project, intended to replace the President’s aging chopper fleet, was running more than 50% over budget by the time Barack Obama took office. Soon after his Inauguration, the President announced plans to scrap the helicopters because of cost overruns. On July 22, however, the House Appropriations Committee unanimously approved restoring $485 million to fund the Kestrels.
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye: $232 million

A major step forward for surveillance and reconnaissance, the Advanced Hawkeye’s powerful new radar system will increase the range of territory an aircraft can monitor by 300%. “It can probably watch the pistachios pop in Iran,” an analyst for the think tank Lexington Institute told National Defense in July. Though development of the plane is on track and two test versions have been delivered to the Navy, budget cuts may keep the planes grounded for at least a year longer than planned.

- See more at: http://www.askranker.com/2014/07/top-10-most-expensive-military-planes.html

Dude, nice find but grossly inacurrate.
The F-22 in service, number over a hundred. And the unit cost is $150m not $350m. It is the current. bad-ass fighter the USA has now.
Don't mean to be rude, but your source is a loada crap info.

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