{"id":3052,"date":"2018-11-19T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:31:54","slug":"lockheed-martin-lands-22-7-billion-255-jet-fighter-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Lands $22.7 Billion 255-Jet Fighter Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let the shareholders rejoice:\u00a0Lockheed Martin<\/strong>‘s\u00a0(NYSE: LMT)<\/span>\u00a0F-35 Lightning II fighter jet contracts are getting bigger —\u00a0and bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September, Reuters reported on a Pentagon deal to buy what it called at the time “the biggest batch yet” of Lockheed Martin’s joint strike fighter – 141 fighter jets\u00a0valued at $11.5 billion. To win such a big order, Lockheed lowered its average F-35 cost to $81.6 million. With engine and other incidental costs factored in, flyaway costs were a bit higher. Lockheed’s F-35B variant flyaway cost $115.5 million, its F-35C cost $107.7 million, and the F-35A ended up at $89 million. Still, as Lockheed noted \u00a0at the time, this contract offered the “lowest per-aircraft price in program history,” which undoubtedly helped Lockheed seal the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Big as that sale was, however, the contract Lockheed just won easily eclipses it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin Lands 255-Jet Fighter Order <\/a><\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0lockheedmartin.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let the shareholders rejoice:\u00a0Lockheed Martin’s\u00a0(NYSE: LMT)\u00a0F-35 Lightning II fighter jet contracts are getting bigger —\u00a0and bigger. In September, Reuters reported on a Pentagon deal to buy what it called at the time “the biggest batch yet” of Lockheed Martin’s joint strike fighter – 141 fighter jets\u00a0valued at $11.5 billion. To win such a big order, Lockheed lowered its average F-35 cost to $81.6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,1836,1397],"tags":[2441,430,2444,447,1268,1102,2440,2442,2445,1184,2438,589,2437,2436,78,2443,1100,1242,1981,412,2439,639,1288,1845,2185,597],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-defense-news","category-stock-news","tag-air-force","tag-contract","tag-corps","tag-deal","tag-defense","tag-f-35","tag-f-35a","tag-f-35b","tag-f-35c","tag-fighter","tag-ii","tag-jet","tag-lightning","tag-lmt","tag-lockheed","tag-marine","tag-martin","tag-motley-fool","tag-navy","tag-news","tag-pentagon","tag-president","tag-reuters","tag-spending","tag-stealth","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}