16 Billion for the NGAD Bend over and smile

[727Sky]

16 billion is for 200 NGAD fighters and 1000 loyal wing men; which is a glorified drone.
Edit to add: The cost of the program IMO after delays and reworks will be closer to double that amount if not more...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Welcome to Cold War 2.0.

After the Russkies detonated their first nuke in Aug 1949, we no longer had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. The NSC-68 report of 1950 will call for a massive increase in military spending as well as hydrogen bomb development. The Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 (from 5 to 14.2 percent).