Lockheed Martin Corp, maker of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has said it does not see a problem since the lithium-ion batteries on the military plane are made by France’s Saft Groupe, not Yuasa.
(Additional reporting by Antoni Slodkowski, James Topham, Kentaro Sugiyama, Yoshiyuki Osada and Yuka Obayashi in Japan; Peter Henderson in Los Angeles, Tim Hepher in London and Alwyn Scott in Seattle; Editing by Daniel Magnowski, Maureen Bavdek and Marguerita Choy)