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Inside Australia’s covert F-35 parts pipeline to Israel

Additional leaked documents reveal that at least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia, Declassified Australia has reported.

Michelle Fahy, Oct 12, 2025, https://undueinfluence.substack.com/p/inside-australias-covert-f-35-parts?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=297295&post_id=175860111&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Peter Cronau, co-founder of independent investigative outlet Declassified Australia, has broken another significant story detailing the ongoing secret export of F-35 parts from Australia to Israel over the past two years, with the latest shipment being sent in mid-September.

Extract from the story, which was published on 1 October:

Detailed shipping records seen by Declassified Australia show the most recent shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel left Sydney two weeks ago destined to Tel Aviv, exported in the cargo bay of a scheduled passenger flight from Sydney International Airport.

Declassified Australia has examined the details of confidential shipping records listing a total of 68 shipments of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft parts flown from Australia directly to Israel between October 2023 and September 2025.

The multiple F-35 parts and components being sent to Israel are bypassing the two main centralised distribution hubs for F-35 parts in the US and Netherlands by being sent as cargo on commercial passenger flights from Australia to Israel.

The shipping records show that the number of Joint Strike Fighter parts shipments made directly to Israel from Australia spiked immediately after the commencement of Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza on the evening of 7 October 2023, with 10 separate shipments being made from Australia to Israel in the one month of November 2023 alone.

Of the 68 documented shipments, 51 are marked with the final receiver being at Nevatim with postcode 8955000, located in Israel. This corresponds with the address of Nevatim Airbase, located in Israel’s Negev desert, and the base for the Israeli Air Force’s three F-35 squadrons.

The number of parts exported may be much higher than the 68 shipments detailed. A comparison to opaquely named items on two lists of export approvals obtained previously by Declassified Australia show at least another 24 identically named parts were shipped during the same period. This covert trade is now seen as far more extensive than as first reported in July by Declassified Australia.

—> Read the full story from Declassified Australia.

This important new evidence substantiates early reporting last year by Undue Influence

Extract from our May 2024 article, Australia and the F-35 supply chain: in lockstep with Lockheed:

The head of the F-35 joint program office, Lieutenant General Michael Schmidt, a US Air Force officer, said a year ago that the F-35 program was established with a ‘just in time’ supply chain, where parts arrive just before they’re needed and very little inventory is stockpiled. [Emphasis added.] Lt-Gen Schmidt described that situation as ‘too risky’.

In mid-December [2023], a US Congressional hearing on the F-35 program revealed that the F-35 joint program office had been moving ‘at a breakneck speed to support…Israel…by increasing spare part supply rates’. [Emphasis added.]

In his testimony to the December 12 Congressional hearing, Lieutenant General Schmidt also made clear the role of the F-35 joint program office in closely supporting Israel:

“I had the opportunity to talk with [Israel’s] Chief of Staff just yesterday… [Israel is] very satisfied with [the] performance [the] sustainment enterprise is giving them. We could learn a lot from them in terms of the quickness with which they’re turning airplanes, [plus] all of the things we’re learning ourselves with moving parts around the world in support of a conflict.” [Emphasis added.]

The evidence above and its timing make it possible that Defence’s two export permit approvals for Israel in late October may have been related to the US-led rush to organise increased supply of F-35 spare parts for Israel.

Read that full story here:

Australia and the F-35 supply chain: in lockstep with Lockheed

Michelle Fahy, May 4, 2024

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October 13, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized