
COVID-19 is likely to delay the delivery of 18 to 24 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II fighters by several months, a company official said on Aug. 6. "Our goal for this year was to deliver 141 [F-35] airplanes," Steve Callaghan, the vice president of F-35 business development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, told reporters during a virtual meeting to discuss the company's F-35 bid for the Canadian Future Fighter competition and the F-35 program overall. "Due to the COVID impacts…