A mistake caused China to get parts of the American F-35 fighter

Parts of the American F-35 fighter jet did not reach their destination due to an unexpected human error in the postal route and were directly provided to the Chinese military. The fifth generation fighter F-35 Lightning 2 is the backbone of the US Air Force and its allies. Protecting the technical secrets of this advanced bird has always been the Pentagon's priority, but sometimes...

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Parts of the American F-35 fighter jet did not reach their destination due to an unexpected human error in the postal route and were directly provided to the Chinese military.

The fifth generation fighter F-35 Lightning 2 is the backbone of the US Air Force and its allies. Protecting the technical secrets of this advanced bird has always been the Pentagon's priority, but sometimes the simplest mistakes create a chain of major security crises.

Wrong transfer of US F-35 fighter parts to Chinese soil

A sensitive military shipment, including the door of the weapons compartment and the canopy of the cockpit of the F-35 fighter, which was on its way from Australia to San Francisco for repair or scrapping, was sent to Hong Kong instead of safely passing through Taiwan and South Korea due to the disregard of an employee of the UPS postal company to the email of the arms export instructions. The Beijing authorities immediately confiscated the shipment and have refused to return these top-secret components despite Hong Kong's historical belonging to China since 1997.

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The Chinese military's access to these parts has greatly worried the Pentagon because Beijing has a long history of copying Western weapons and is currently developing the indigenous J-35 fighter. Military analysts warn that Chinese engineers can reverse-engineer the stealth and radar-absorbing coating of these parts to find ways to identify the F-35 Lightning II fighter and completely neutralize its stealth capabilities in possible future conflicts over Taiwan.