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Australia F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong

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Australia confirmed that a shipment of F-35 components sent from Australia intended for the United States was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong and remained unaccounted for. Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia was assisting the United States and Lockheed Martin with the investigation, while maintaining that the missing items were not technologically sensitive. Apparently that the shipment included an aircraft canopy intensified concern about how tightly the global F-35 supply chain was being controlled.

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AustraliaDefenceHong KongNational securityUnited States
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View an alternate treatment.An earlier treatment of the Hong Kong International Airport lost-property warehouse. A large chaotic pile of grey aircraft parts and a prominent canopy fills the left side, while a young Australian Air Force serviceman shows the clerk a photograph of an F-35. The clerk points toward the pile and says, ‘Yeah, I think we found one of those.’ Shelves of ordinary lost property extend into the background.
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Inside the vast lost-property warehouse at Hong Kong International Airport, shelves of suitcases, umbrellas, strollers and neck pillows recede into the distance. At the counter, a young Australian Air Force serviceman holds a manifest showing an aircraft canopy and panel. A Hong Kong airport employee gestures toward a single open cargo container holding loosely packed grey aircraft components and says, ‘Yeah, I think we found one of those.’ A small goose peers from the container.

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