Aircraft consume a huge portion of the money spent every year on defense by Washington, everything from hand launched drones to immense transport planes, but nothing costs more than a new fighter jet.
The Pentagon spent more than $54 billion on military aircraft last year and that's just a fraction of the $396 billion it will spend on 2,500 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters alone over the years.
Jets are expensive, and like the F-22, they don't always do what they're supposed to as technological advances become integral to new designs.
Those advances have gone hand-in-hand since the FJ-1 Fury took to the skies in 1946.
The Fury was just mildly faster than propeller driven planes and was armed with only machine guns, but it help lead to the creation of all the other military jets that followed.
The Fury's first flight was September 11, 1946
The fighter jet had many design elements of the wildly successful P-51 Mustang that shot down nearly 5,000 enemy fighters during WWII
The Fury carried six Browning machine guns and 1,500 rounds of ammunition
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