That could impact foreign sales of the Lockheed Martin-produced F-35 and other advanced U.S. jets like the F-16. As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, it’s become clear that Eastern European NATO members still have vast stores of Soviet-era weapons in their stockpiles that weren’t interoperable with Western weaponry.

Shares of defense prime contractor Lockheed Martin have been under siege amid changes in U.S. leadership and questions about the viability of technologies it produces.Now, Canada is questioning its purchase of Lockheed’s F-35 jet fighters,

A spokesman for Canada's Defense Minister Bill Blair says new Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of the purchase of America’s F-35 fighter jet