[ChrisLomont]

>>You're not accounting for inflation.

> Hint: it's accounting for inflation.

You started with a quote from what you called the source article, then concluded "So... it increased $7.7B with $6.3B of that being additional planes ordered."

Here's the source article [1] for your quote. From May 1, 1977. So try again to your values are inflation adjusted. They're not. The numbers you started with are 1977 nominal dollars. They had no idea you'd be quoting them in 2021 so there's no way they would have written those 1977 values in 2021 dollars for you to quote today. The other numbers for future F-35 costs also are not inflation adjusted. Track down the source and check; I did. They're nominal figures, added from each years budget. You're just making these claims up as you go.

Since you claim things that are so demonstrably untrue, apparently assuming I'll just believe you, it's not worth continuing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/01/archives/f-16-fighter-pro...

[tw04]

The NYtimes article quotes a GAO report, which is THE SOURCE. The $360B quotes was what $1.8Trillion would equate to in 1977 dollars, inflation.

You have yet to provide a single number or source to your claims despite continuing to insist I have no idea what I'm talking about, until you do actually show up with some numbers to back up your claims I'm done with the conversation and will assume at this point you're just arguing for the sake of being a troll.