How much oil does the fighter burn in 1 hour?

Fighter aircraft are the main weapons of every nation, every military background. To maintain 1 or a fleet, the cost is often very large. So how much oil does a fighter plane burn in an hour?

No matter what kind of weapon a military needs to have, such as the army needing artillery, tanks, and naval ships. Similarly, the air force needs fighters. People often say ' raise 3 farmers by raising a soldier, raising 3 soldiers with a navy soldier, raising 3 new marines with an air force' . The same is true, it is like air fares are more expensive than train and train tickets. Fighter aircraft consume huge amounts of fuel so the operating cost is very large.

The causes that affect the life of fighter jets are many, such as flight speed, landing speed, flight altitude . Daily airplanes often have to maintain and repair. These things need to be spent. In addition, fighters also consume huge fuel, in an hour, the amount of oil it consumes can be exchanged for a luxury car. Therefore, the strong economic power like the United States now only has 3400 fighters because the price of buying expensive fighter jets is low, the costs are not small after that.

An American F-22 5th generation fighter plane burns about US $ 58,000 per hour (equivalent to about VND 1.3 billion). A US B-2 strategic bomber is even more costly to scare when its oil consumption is 2.5 times F-22. Every hour this plane burns off 115,000 USD of oil (equivalent to 3 billion Vietnamese dong).

These fighters all use specially expensive aviation fuels. However, the fighters also did not avoid abrasion to replace components. It all took money, so the fighter was really a money-burning machine.

SR-71 Black Bird is estimated to spend up to $ 200,000 in oil every hour and normally takes 20 hours of maintenance every hour. So it can be seen that the cost is extremely large. A Chinese J-10 aircraft burns about $ 24,000 of oil every hour (equivalent to more than 500 million Vietnamese dongs). Thereby, it can be seen that the desire to research and develop current weapons is not only about technology but also economic power to be able to do it, without money.