Why is it so expensive to fly and maintain military aircraft?

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I just so some numbers like 20-35K dollars per flight hour for some fighters and that seems ridiculous, anyone know what costs so much?

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If I buy 1 soda it’s $1.00. If I buy 12 sodas, it’s $6.00.

The military has a combined 5k craft, vs the 200k commercial and private craft in the US. The commercial/private sector just has far more volume available to get the cost lower for operating and maintaining craft.

This is of course in addition to all of the other great answers being given.

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