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Cheap. the pentagon recently announced it will spend nearly $8.5 billion for 90 of these single-engine stealth jets that can take on competitors in the air as well as targets on theor ground. >> you know it's been criticized for the expense, the cost. is it worth it? >> i think it's worth every single penny. the only reason i can say that i've flown f-16s for 20ce years and i flown the f35 and this is the airplane i would want to take to combat with me. >> jon: why? >> it's because of the stealth of the advanced technology. the stealth gives you the ability to be in a place where nobody knows ...

>> jon: the f35 doesn't come cheap. at the pentagon recently announced it will spend nearly $8.5 billion for 90 of these single-engine stealth jets that can take on competitors in the air as well as targets on the ground. >> you know it's been criticized for the expense, the cost. is it worth it? >> i think it's work tell mike worth everything a penny. the only reason i can say that his lifelong f-16s for 20 years and i flown the f35 and this is the airplane i would want to take to combat with me. >> jon: why? >> it's because of the stealth of the advanced technology. the stealth gives you the...

And russian forces. both have aircraft operating there. both conducting air strikes. they want to prevent any accidental clashes. the russians are increasingly crossing that line without warning, flying over the euphrates river which separates the two forces multiple times, sometimes as many as eight times a day we're being told. in this instance the flights were so concerning that u.s. scrambled f-22 stealth jets to intercept the russian fighters and fired warning flaring, something unusual in the intercepts to get their attention and out of that area. very high tensions here in the skies ove...

About two dozen u.s. stealth jets were among hundreds of aircraft conducting air combat exercises in south korea. the air force says the exercises of part of the annual war games with south korea every year, not in response to any incident or provocation. north korea on its state-run media warned the u.s.' week-long exercises could bring it to the brink of war. keir simmons joins me. this is the largest deployment of stealth fighters to south korea but these exercises are different in other ways, as well. >> north korea describing this as a grave provocation, escalating the situation to the br...

Because it seems frankly pretty impressive. >> reporter: well, it is. it's impressive enough for the north koreas to be describing it as a grave provocation escalating situation, they say, to the brirng nk of nuclear war. and the north korea media news agency then going on to say it's happening at a time when, quote, insane president trump is running wild. as you mentioned, though, hallie, it is, at the same time, an annual exercise that the air force says is not in response to any incident or provocation. it is the u.s. military participating in the strongest show of force in corporation with...