
Editor's Note. This will be the last issue of Defense Daily in 2017. Our next issue will be dated Jan. 3, 2018. Happy Holidays!F-35 Production. Lockheed Martin plans to deliver about 90 F-35 Lightning IIs to U.S. and foreign customers in 2018, up from 66 fighter jets this year and 46 in 2016, a company spokesman says. Production is slated to continue increasing in the coming years, reaching a full rate of about 160 jets in 2023. The company has…