F-35s are built at a Lockheed Martin factory in Fort Worth, Texas, in April 2012. (Lockheed Martin)
Bloomberg: F-35 Deliveries Halted Over a Chinese Alloy, Pentagon Says
(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon has halted deliveries of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 after finding an alloy used in magnets for pumps on the fighter jet was made in China.
The F-35 program office “temporarily paused the acceptance of new F-35 aircraft to ensure the F-35 program’s compliance” with defense regulations “pertaining to specialty metals,” Defense Department spokesman Russell Goemaere said in an email.
He said the pause won’t interfere with operations of F-35s already delivered to the US military and partners abroad because “the magnet does not transmit information or harm the integrity of the aircraft and there are no performance, quality, safety or security risks associated with this issue.”
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