"Parsecwalker June 26th, 2009 at 6:17 am It???s been argued that the F-35 Lightning II is a better buy because it???s a less expensive aircraft, but just recently in the Wall Street Journal there was an article which read how the Pentagon was awarding Lockheed Martin $3.1Billion for the purchase of 14 F-35 fighter jets and doing the math, this comes out to be over $221.4M per aircraft which means e" . . . .