Pentagon’s $31 Bn F-35 Inventory Mess: Hong Kong Parts Diversion Haunts Trump Ahead of Xi Meeting?
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US F-35 supply-chain leaks aiding and abetting China’s rival J
Mounting US supply-chain failures and decades of relentless Chinese espionage are exposing the flagship F-35 stealth fighter program to critical security leaks, handing China potential windfalls to advance its rival J-35 fleet and challenge US air superiority across the Indo-Pacific. This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report stating that the US Department […]
Pentagon’s $31 bn F-35 inventory mess: Hong Kong parts diversion haunts Trump ahead of Xi meeting?
The Pentagon is facing fresh questions over its ability to track the parts that keep America’s F-35 stealth fighters operational. A new Government Accountability Office report says the programme cannot reliably account for more than 17,000 components worth an estimated $1.3 billion, within a global spare-parts pool valued at around $31 billion. The findings come weeks after a shipment of F-35 components travelling from Australia to the United St…
Around 17,000 aircraft parts, estimated to be worth as much as 2.23 billion euros, are not recorded in the Pentagon's logistics system.
This summer, because an employee of the logistics provider UPS ignored [or missed] an email sent by the transport company DSV A/S, commissioned by Lockheed Martin, parts of an Australian F-35A fighter-bomber, namely the cockpit window and the hatch of the ammunition hold, took the direction of Hong Kong to the... This article More than 17,000 spare parts of F-35, with a total value of $1.3 billion, are missing at the call appeared first on Milit…
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