President-elect Donald Trump upended years of Pentagon procurement planning with a tweet on Thursday, announcing he had asked Boeing Co. to price an upgrade of its F-18 Super Hornet jet that could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapon system ever."Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" Trump said Thursday in a post on Twitter.
Boeing agreed within the past 24 hours to cut the cost to Airforce One so it makes business sense to throw them another bone to chew on. Mr. Trump has saved more jobs and money so far as pres-elect than Obama in 8 years as pres (he actually doubled the debt.)