Lockheed Martin’s new helicopter will not cost the US taxpayer $31 billion. The project was recently approved and is already seeing a 6% increase in cost.
Lockheed Marine helicopter came with unpublicized cost increase
The Pentagon’s approval for the Marine Corps to start buying Lockheed Martin’s new heavy lift helicopter came with a hidden surprise: the projected total acquisition cost for the King Stallion program has increased 6.9 percent to $31 billion.