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

Question

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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Answer 1

Cost per flight hour is generally just calculated as the total cost of ownership for thay year divided by the number of flight hours in that year. 

There are a LOT of costs associated with military craft given the personnel and facilities associated with supporting them.

They also don’t tend to fly much per year compared to say, a commercial jet liner. 

The result is a very high per flight hour number.