http://gizmodo.com/5868405/buyers-remorse-how-much-has-the-f-22-really-cost
By comparison, it costs me $2 million a year to run a company with 73 full time employees. Each single plane cost the USA $678 million!!! I could run Coalition for three and a half centuries for the cost of one plane.
Does this protect us? Of course not. This is why we need no standing army. Its just a way for corrupt bureaucrats to steal taxpayer money.