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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deliveries can resume for Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 jet under a waiver allowing Chinese-origin alloy to go into...

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deliveries can resume for Lockheed Martin Corps F-35 jet under a waiver allowing Chinese-origin alloy to go into an engine part, the Pentagon said on Saturday. In September the Pentagon stopped accepting new F-35 jets after it discovered a magnet in the stealthy fighters engine was made with unauthorized material from China. The waiver, signed Oct. 8 by William LaPlante, the Pentagons chief weapons buyer, allows an alloy in the engines lubricant pump that doe...

Deliveries can resume for Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 jet under a waiver allowing Chinese-origin alloy to go into an engine part, the Pentagon said on Saturday.

Air Force Special Operations Command lifted the stay on Osprey flights without identifying a fix for the problem that grounded the fleet for a safety pause.

F-35 fighter jets already in service are not affected by the temporary pause.

The F-35 Lightning is on hold

But that hasn’t stopped the D.C. commentariat from speculating wildly on which country had their secrets strewn about Trump’s club.

By Mike Stone

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has stopped accepting new F-35 jets to check that a magnet being used in the stealthy fighter's engi...

Long-term, the service still seeks to understand what is actually the root cause of the issue, and “finding and implementing a materiel solution," according to a spokeswoman.