Pentagon Buying Boeing F-18s as Hedge Against F-35 Delays
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The U.S. Defense Department will continue to buy Boeing Co. F-18 fighters as a hedge against delays in producing the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 jet, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer wrote a lawmaker this month.
“The department’s commitment to the F-35 is solid and we are committed to production rates that minimize cost,” the Defense Department’s undersecretary for acquisition, Ashton Carter, wrote Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn on Sept. 1.