US military orders fleet-wide F-35 retrofit to address F135 engine issue

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Source: Lockheed Martin

The US government has ordered that all Lockheed Martin F-35s be retrofitted to address a “harmonic resonance” engine issue that forced the recent grounding of some but not all the fifth-generation fighters.

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