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Pentagon Stops Accepting New F-35 Fighter Jets After Finding Part ‘Made In China’
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Pentagon Stops Accepting New F-35 Fighter Jets After Finding Part ‘Made In China’

Washington: The US Pentagon has stopped accepting new F-35 jets after it observed a magnet used withinside the stealthy fighter's engine changed into made with unauthorized fabric from China. The plane's maker, Lockheed Martin, located a element used withinside the jet's engine changed into made in China, the Defence Department and organisation showed on Wednesday (nearby time). The Defence Contract Management Agency on August 19 notified the F-35 Joint Program Office that an alloy utilized in magnets withinside the F-35's turbomachine pumps changed into produced in China, workplace spokesperson Russell Goemaere stated in a announcement to The Hill. The software workplace "briefly paused the popularity of latest F-35 plane to make certain the F-35 software's compliance" with defence regula...