Lockheed, Pentagon announce $8.5 billion F-35 order

The Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin Corp announced on Friday an agreement worth about $8.5 billion for 90 F-35 jets, the lowest price to date for the Pentagon's most expensive program. This is more than the $600 million that U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Monday he had been able to shave off from the F-35 program, which he had described as "out of control" in December. The price per jet has been steadily declining as production ramps up, and defense analysts have said the disco