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Workers can be seen on the moving line and forward fuselage assembly areas for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at Lockheed Martin Corp's factory located in Fort Worth, Tex

Trump has a point about the F-35 fighter jet, but the full story is complicated

December 13, 2016Business

President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet about a US-made fighter jet, the F-35, caused its manufacturer’s stock to tumble. Here’s why critics of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter program say that the plane, designed to be efficient and economical, is neither.