SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took several swipes at the Pentagon’s F-35 program over the past two days as well as at the “idiots” who continue to build the stealth fighter jet.

Musk, who has been tasked by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy in his new administration, signaled that the $2 trillion lifetime cost of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, developed by Lockheed Martin, could be a subject of his cost-reduction recommendations.

“The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people,” Musk said in a post on X on Monday, days after a declassified Pentagon study on the fighter jet detailed reliability and security woes, Bloomberg reported.

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