Trump world's Laura Loomer takes aim at a 'woke' Lockheed Martin and its $2 trillion F-35 program

[Eugene]

Source: Insider

Trump world's Laura Loomer takes aim at a 'woke' Lockheed Martin and its $2 trillion F-35 program

Jake Epstein
Mon, April 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM EDT 4 min read

• Far-right activist Laura Loomer criticized Lockheed Martin and its F-35 jet over the weekend.
• She became the latest Trump ally to lash out against the expensive and highly capable jet.
• Elon Musk has also rebuked the fifth-generation fighter aircraft.

Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who has a direct line to President Donald Trump, criticized Lockheed Martin's F-35 program over the weekend, decrying the US defense giant as "woke" and lashing out against the expensive stealth aircraft.

In a lengthy post on X, Loomer suggested Lockheed Martin is delivering F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters that "are simply not ready for combat."

"The F-35 program, one of the most expensive weapons programs in history, is plagued by delays, defects, & downright incompetence," she wrote Saturday. She said the US Air Force is accepting jets that lack "functional" radar systems, without offering evidence.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-worlds-laura-loomer-takes-213943966.html

[Ocelot II]

1. So now this nutball is an aeronautical engineer with extensive knowledge

of electronics and weapons systems? Did all that silicone migrate from her lips to her brain?

[drray23]

3. she is definitely a nutball and RW extremist

however, in this instance it may be a case of a broken clock being right twice a day. The F35 program is well known to have had huge cost overruns and delays. Its only kept alive because of congress members that have it in their districts. Like many things in the military industrial complex, politics often override sound judgment and cost benefit analysis.

[tanyev]

5. Seriously doubt it's because Lockheed Martin is "woke", though.

[drray23]

6. Yeah that part does not compute..

[Ocelot II]

7. There gave been problems with the production of the F35 for years, but

a dingbat like Laura Loomer is not qualified to evaluate the adequacy its radar system or much else about it. And whatever might be wrong with it is certainly not because Lockheed is "woke."

[marble falls]

2. F-35 has been a mess and a boondoggle since Reagan first signed off on it.

[2naSalit]

4. I wonder who...

Is feeding her.