Pentagon Budget Calls for Two Fewer of Lockheed’s F-35 Fighters

The Pentagon’s proposed budget for next year calls for buying 29 of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, two fewer than this year’s purchase.

The Defense Department would pay $9.17 billion for the planes, the military’s costliest weapons program, according to a Pentagon budget document released today by the Center for Defense Information, a policy group in Washington.