Pentagon Reportedly Falls Short by $1.4 Billion in Bid to Buy Next Tranche of Troubled F-35 Jets

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Defense Department is $1.4 billion short in its current budgetary allocations of sufficient funding to complete its planned next order of F-35 multi-purpose fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, so that its eventual fleet will fall significantly short of the 375 aircraft currently expected, Bloomberg reported.