(OFFICIAL)-UPDATE 4-Trump tweet 攻撃する,衝突するs Lockheed ツバメ's F-35 闘士,戦闘機 jet costs

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Monday 非難するd Lockheed ツバメ's F-35 闘士,戦闘機 jet program as too expensive, the 最新の attack by the U.S. 大統領,/社長-elect on large 弁護 請負業者s.

Lockheed 株 dropped 5.1 パーセント and 株 of several other 弁護 請負業者s also 宙返り/暴落するd.

"The F-35 program and cost is out of 支配(する)/統制する," Trump said on Twitter, echoing (選挙などの)運動をする 約束s to 削減(する) waste in 連邦の spending. "Billions of dollars can and will be saved on 軍の (and other) 購入(する)s after January 20th."

Last week, he also used Twitter to 的 Boeing Co for its "out of 支配(する)/統制する" costs on a new (n)艦隊/(a)素早い of 空気/公表する 軍隊 One 計画(する)s, 勧めるing the 連邦の 政府 to "取り消す order!"

Lockheed ツバメ's F-35 program leader, Jeff Babione, 答える/応じるd by 説 the company understands 関心s about affordability and has 投資するd millions of dollars to 減ずる the jet's price.

Babione said Lockheed's goal was to 減ずる the price of the F-35 by 60 パーセント from its 初めの 見積(る)s. "We 事業/計画(する) it to be about 85 million dollars in the 2019 or 2020 time でっちあげる,人を罪に陥れる," he told reporters in イスラエル.

A week before Trump won the Nov. 8 大統領の 選挙, the U.S. 弁護 Department and Lockheed ツバメ 結論するd 交渉s on their ninth 契約 for 90 F-35 闘士,戦闘機 jets, the 米国防総省 said. Lockheed won the 契約, valued at u p to $7.18 billion, in late November and has received an 暫定的な 支払い(額).

The 米国防総省 is 支払う/賃金ing about $102 million for each of the 従来の 離陸/出発 A-model jets 存在 built for the U.S. 空気/公表する 軍隊, イスラエル and many other countries, によれば sources familiar with the program. That 示すs 貯金 of over 50 パーセント from the 初期の jets ordered, 反映するing larger 量s and the fact that many technical 問題/発行するs have been アイロンをかけるd out.

The F-35 program has been dogged by problems since its inception, with the 米国防総省's 長,指導者 武器 買い手 once 述べるing as "取得/買収 malpractice" the 決定/判定勝ち(する) of previous 公式の/役人s to start producing the jets before their 開発 had been 完全にするd. That 決定/判定勝ち(する) led to a 一連の 高くつく/犠牲の大きい retrofits on 早期に 生産/産物 jets.

The 米国防総省's 長,指導者 武器s tester has continued to 非難する the program, but the jets are now in 操作の use by the U.S. 海洋 軍団 and 空気/公表する 軍隊, and the jets are 存在 flown by six countries: Australia, Britain, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands and イスラエル. Japan took 配達/演説/出産 of its first jet last week, によれば a 広報担当者 for the program.

Still, cost 侵略(する)/超過(する)s have made the F-35 a 的 for 批評. With an 概算の price tag of $400 billion, the F-35 program has been 述べるd as the most expensive 武器 system in history.

Lockheed and its 重要な partners, Northrop Grumman Corp , 部隊d 科学(工学)技術s Corp 部隊 Pratt & Whitney and BAE Systems, are developing and building three variants of the F-35s for the U.S. 軍の and 10 同盟(する)s 含むing Britain, Australia, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, イスラエル, Japan and South Korea.

After Trump's tweet, 株 of Lockheed ツバメ were 負かす/撃墜する 5.1 パーセント. 株 of General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman Boeing, BAE and Rayt heon were lower, while 部隊d 科学(工学)技術s 株 were flat.

部隊d 科学(工学)技術s recently (機の)カム under 解雇する/砲火/射撃 from the 大統領-elect over a 計画(する) to ship 2,100 運送/保菌者 空気/公表する 条件ing 職業s to Mexico from Indiana. The company agreed to keep about 800 of the 製造業の 職業s in Indiana and 保持する another 300 (警察,軍隊などの)本部 職業s, in return for 明言する/公表する 税金 incentives.

The attacks on Boeing and Lockheed ツバメ raise 関心s that the 後継の Trump 行政 will 脅す 弁護 請負業者s' 利益(をあげる) 利ざやs.

"His 現れるing habit of using Twitter as a いじめ(る) pulpit could become a 脅し to 議論の的になる high-profile programs," Cowen 分析家s wrote last week after Trump 非難するd the cost of Boeing's 空気/公表する 軍隊 One 交替/補充 program. "Even if Trump only 開始する,打ち上げるs a bombastic Twitter shout-out, this more 積極的な approach to 請負業者 relations could 衝撃 the 在庫/株s."

Earlier this month, the 米国防総省's 長,指導者 武器 買い手 said he was 希望に満ちた that Lockheed F-35 封鎖する buy will proceed.

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Andrea Shalal, Alwyn Scott, Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey; Editing by 法案 Trott and Nick Zieminski)

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