Musk, who is set to advise President-elect Donald Trump on government efficiency, has said before that the F-35 program would lose to a drone fighter.

Elon Musk has made a stunning claim that could reshape military aviation: manned combat aircraft are obsolete. The tech mogul, freshly appointed to a new U.S. government efficiency ministry, has set his sights on the F-35 fighter jet,

While More Heading to Europe: Elon Musk might not be a fan of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, but the United States Navy loves the fifth-generation stealth fighter. The sea service awarded the aerospace and defense giant an $869.

The person soon to be in charge of cutting federal spending is blasting a Lockheed Martin jet. Billionaire Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, said Tuesday, Nov. 26, on X that the U.S. should pull the plug on the Lockheed-Martin’s F-35.

Elon Musk Said 'Idiots' Are Still Building Manned Fighter Jets: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk likely walks into a room and he "knows" (at least in his mind) that he's the smartest person – and yet, he has a long history of saying (and doing) really stupid things.