The defense contractor's shares fell on Wednesday amid a report that the Pentagon was only requesting 24 F-35s from Congress.

Chief Executive Elon Musk said his recent attacks on President Trump [went "too far."](

The fallout from the feud could reach the defense business. Musk is a proponent of drones over manned fighter jets, and his comments have weighed on the sector. Coming into the week, shares of F-35 bu

So Lockheed Martin is likely to like the president's proposals (both of them). The more so seeing as it's been only a couple of months since the Air Force handed Lockheed a rather shocking defeat, when it awarded the $20 billion contract to build a sixth-generation stealth fighter, the F-47, to rival Boeing ( BA 0.96%).