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Air Force Pushes Ahead With $23 Billion Project to Upgrade Boeing's Venerable F-15

Air Force Pushes Ahead With $23 Billion Project to Upgrade Boeing's Venerable F-15

Fifth-generation "stealthy" fighter jets, invisible to radar, capable of flying unimpeded into hostile territory to hit their targets and come home safe -- how great is that? At last report, determined efforts to cut costs had driven the price of a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) F-35A stealth fighter down to about $100 million per unit (including the cost of the engines).