From the chans via X. Dont know if it is true..but SOMETHING happened.
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These planes cost nothing close to what they report they do.
They cost what they are quoted to cost. You may say that's too much, and it would probably be true, but that is what they cost regardless. It is tough to meet requirements. Especially when the customer wants to change them partway through the program. And also especially when the vendor didn't have a complete grasp of their problems. (Lots of time and expense went into perfecting the clutch for the vertical fan on the -B model.) My perspective? I only worked for the military side of the Boeing Company for 40 years.
I worked for General Dynamics for a good period of time and they would push projects onto me and tell me to require X an hour for them insanely out of my pay grade to cover next year's funding. Or they would tell me to sit on things and pretend I was still doing them to cover for this reckless spending.
I'm not saying everyone was totally on the up and up. Problems of that sort in the 1980s (cross-charging between Space Shuttle and B-1B contracts) gave rise to increased financial scrutiny in the defense industry. Don't assume that it all goes without notice or correction nowadays. Congress has never been happy with such costs, but they want the products.
There may have been a lot of military toothbrushes on that plane.