Donald Trump will cancel an order to buy F-35 fighter jets
Donald Trump does not want to continue to buy more of the stealth fighter is the latest American F-35 because this weapon too expensive but the advantage did not achieve the desired field.
Donald Trump said that the stealth fighter jets from Lockheed Martin F-35 production is a weapons program "costly", though the newly elected President of the United States in favor of increasing the defense budget when he took office early next year.
Islam in 2015, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt radio show, Mr. Trump has criticized the cost of manufacturing the F-35 and said he heard "that it's not very good. I've heard that many aircraft our is better ".
January 2017, when both took office, Mr. Trump will face some important decisions about the fate of fighter aircraft F-35 and other weapons systems. Currently, the US is planning to buy more fighter than before. Specifically in the US 2018 fiscal year will probably buy 70 fighter aircraft and purchase additional 80 units in 2019, while only buy 63 units this year.
Besides the US military also buy 450 fighter types in the coming years to increase the total number of fighters to 2443 units, including 1,763 units for the air force. Factory Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth is undergoing phase upgrade worth $ 1.2 billion to increase the capacity to produce fighters for the US military.
Any delays in the planned purchase of F-35 aircraft will also help Mr. Trump easy to find financial resources for military planning and increase its naval.
Mr. Trump're upset plans to reduce US military forces to 450 thousand troops in 2018. In particular, Mr. Trump wants to increase the number of troops from 475,000 to 540,000 troops now in 2018. The plan on the will cost $ 30 billion increase in defense spending annually.
