# SHADOW FLIGHTS: LEAKS REVEAL NEW U.S. ROUTE OF F-35 JET PARTS TO ISRAEL *Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/source/21531024 *Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/source/21531024.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1 Publisher: Declassified Australia · published 2026-08-13 · read 2026-09-11 Original: https://declassifiedaus.org/2026/08/13/shadow-flights-leaks-reveal-us-route-of-f35-parts/ *A source is testimony, not proof. The document itself is never republished here.* ## Who is named (20) - [Chai Eamsiri](https://truthscore.com/entity/0605bcdf) - [Richard Marles](https://truthscore.com/entity/08f5cb60) - [UA870](https://truthscore.com/entity/0ddb9604) - [Australian government](https://truthscore.com/entity/1ca07f6e) - [Sydney International Airport](https://truthscore.com/entity/1ed7ce27) - [UA2248](https://truthscore.com/entity/2daadd3e) - [Australian F‑35 parts](https://truthscore.com/entity/3022e36a) - [San Francisco International Airport](https://truthscore.com/entity/3f58ab11) - [Australian Department of Defence](https://truthscore.com/entity/71bff041) - [Newark Liberty International Airport](https://truthscore.com/entity/7f7f4d4c) - [Declassified Australia](https://truthscore.com/entity/82973944) - [GAU‑22/A cannon gasket](https://truthscore.com/entity/908c629f) - [Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e6b26cf) - [United Airlines](https://truthscore.com/entity/b3e3f649) - [Ben Gurion International Airport](https://truthscore.com/entity/b50be3cf) - [Thai Airways](https://truthscore.com/entity/bf99b54f) - [Penny Wong](https://truthscore.com/entity/c61964b3) - [RAAF Base Williamtown](https://truthscore.com/entity/c90fb0e5) - [Clamp part](https://truthscore.com/entity/db75372e) - [UA84](https://truthscore.com/entity/f4cb0769) ## What it added - [The secret cargo of Australian F‑35 parts was diverted onto passenger planes of United Airlines.](https://truthscore.com/claim/def0f3c9) > New shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia show the secret cargo of Australian parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets has been diverted onto passenger planes of US airline, United Airlines. - [After two years of being flown on Thai Airways planes, the shipments from Sydney are now taking a longer pathway through the United States instead of Bangkok.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3eef3e30) > After two years being flown on Thai Airways planes, the records indicate the sensitive shipments leaving Sydney are no longer regularly flying through Bangkok but are now taking a longer pathway through the United States. - [The logistical pivot appears to have followed exclusive reporting by Declassified Australia in October last year that showed multiple exports of F‑35 parts…](https://truthscore.com/claim/4554dfe5) > This logistical pivot seems to have come after exclusive reporting last year by Declassified Australia in October that has shown multiple exports of F-35 fighter jet parts from Sydney to Israel via Bangkok. - [Senior Australian ministers claimed that Australia exports no weapons to Israel, then conceded exports may be going to a US global hub, and later claimed only…](https://truthscore.com/claim/f126193a) > For months senior ministers had been claiming firstly that Australia exports no weapons at all to Israel, then conceding that exports may be going to a US global hub, and then claiming that only non-lethal weapons parts were exported to Israel. - [The F‑35 as part of the global F35 supply chain, we contribute components and parts that are non‑lethal in nature.](https://truthscore.com/claim/956bedbb) > “The F-35 as part of the global F35 supply chain, we contribute components and parts that are non-lethal in nature.” - [By November 2025 the total of known exports of F‑35 parts since October 2023 had reached at least 71 shipments.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d670a036) > Further leaks to Declassified Australia revealed that by November last year the total of known exports of F-35 fighter jet parts since October 2023 had reached at least 71 shipments. - [The shipments included a gasket for the F‑35’s four‑barrel 25mm GAU‑22/A cannon that fires 3,300 rounds per minute to devastating effect in Gaza, Lebanon, and…](https://truthscore.com/claim/3d1fabb2) > Of particular relevance to the Foreign Minister’s claim, these shipments included a gasket for the F-35’s four-barrel 25mm GAU-22/A cannon that fires 3,300 rounds per minute to devastating effect in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran – certainly a very lethal weapon. - [The new secret pipeline of F‑35 parts went live on 10 December 2025.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ccc084bc) > On Wednesday, 10 December 2025, the new secret pipeline of F-35 parts went live. - [The first F‑35 part flown out of Sydney on the new route was described as a ‘Clamp’.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d61f9402) > According to new shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia, the first F-35 fighter jet part flown out of Sydney on the new airline and the new route was described obscurely as a ‘Clamp’. - [The part was labelled for the ‘JSF’ and marked as sent to Israel from the postcode address of RAAF Base Williamtown.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8ce1abc6) > It was however clearly labelled as being for the ‘JSF’, the Joint Strike Fighter, and was marked as having been sent to Israel from ‘2314 Williamtown’, which is the unique postcode address of RAAF Base Williamtown, home of Australia’s fleet of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters. - [United Airlines flight UA870 left Sydney International Airport’s Terminal 1 just after midday on a 13‑hour flight to San Francisco.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8b9767e3) > In Sydney on a clear December afternoon, United Airlines scheduled passenger flight number UA870 left from Sydney International Airport’s Terminal 1 just after midday, heading north-east across the Pacific on a 13-hour flight to San Francisco. - [The package was offloaded in San Francisco, transferred to flight UA2248 to Newark, then on the next day left on flight UA84 and arrived at Ben Gurion…](https://truthscore.com/claim/9786da8d) > The leaked shipping records show the package on board the flight was offloaded in San Francisco International Airport onto another United Airlines passenger flight UA2248 for a five-hour hop to New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport. The following day it left on the 10-hour final leg of its journey on United Airlines passenger flight UA84 touching down at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv in Israel on the morning of Friday, 12 December 2025. - [The two‑day transit time suggests the parts were not in the United States long enough for further manufacture, repair, or storage.](https://truthscore.com/claim/36e0bc46) > This minimal time spent in transit with connecting flights continuing the journey to Israel is important. It shows the parts were not in the USA for sufficient time for further manufacture or repair, nor for storage in a US global F-35 parts hub. They flew from Australia through the United States to Israel in just two days. - [The new routing may have been developed for ‘origin laundering’ to allow ministers to claim the parts were merely added to a US global hub.](https://truthscore.com/claim/fc683273) > This suggests the new routing may have been developed for the purpose of ‘origin laundering’, where Ministers and Defence officials in Australia could claim no F-35 weapons parts are being sent to Israel direct from Australia but are merely added to a global hub in the US to which Israel has access. - [The leaked documents confirm that the flow of lethal F‑35 components from Australia to Israel has continued uninterrupted.](https://truthscore.com/claim/eabcc35d) > The leaked documents showing the route alteration confirm that despite mounting public scrutiny, the flow of lethal F-35 components from Australia to Israel has continued uninterrupted. - [If the rerouting was intended to ‘wash’ the parts’ Australian origin, it failed.](https://truthscore.com/claim/012ae5a1) > If the purpose of the rerouting of the F-35 parts package through the United States had been to ‘wash’ the part’s origins of its Australian connection, it failed. - [Over the three months after the December 2025 report, nine additional JSF parts were flown from Sydney on United Airlines passenger flights to Tel Aviv.](https://truthscore.com/claim/cd5cf164) > Over the next three months following Declassified Australia’s December report, there have been a total of nine additional Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft parts flown out of Sydney International Airport on United Airlines passenger flights via the US to Tel Aviv in Israel. - [The total documented JSF parts exported from Sydney to Israel between October 2023 and February 2026 is 80.](https://truthscore.com/claim/588e1a23) > According to all of the leaked shipping documents examined by Declassified Australia, this now brings to 80 the total of documented parts marked for the Joint Strike Fighter and secretly exported to Israel on passenger planes from Sydney International Airport between October 2023 and February 2026. - [Thai Airways International’s CEO Chai Eamsiri said the airline did not knowingly transport military aircraft components from Australia to Israel.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b2032ac6) > Thai Airways International’s CEO, Chai Eamsiri, stated the airline did not knowingly transport military aircraft components heading from Australia to Israel. - [Defence Minister Richard Marles has been required since June 2024 to scrutinise defence exports to every potential shipment to Israel.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ca0187fc) > Defence Minister Richard Marles since June 2024 is meant to exercise his ministerial scrutiny of defence exports “to every potential shipment to Israel”. - [Declassified Australia contacted United Airlines and the Department of Defence for comment, but neither responded by the deadline.](https://truthscore.com/claim/4629ade6) > Declassified Australia contacted both United Airlines and the Department of Defence to ask a series of questions about the flights, and on the security considerations given to the use of passenger airplanes for the exports of military parts from Australia. Neither took the opportunity provided to them to respond by deadline. ## What it cost Reading this document into the graph cost $0.01.