Maybe it's just me, but i've always wondered how, after spending twenty years and hundreds of billions to develop "top secret", cutting-edge fighter planes, the ChiComs seem to spit one out a year later. And, it's usually an exact copy! Coincidence? Do you think it's because many of the professionals working on these ultra-secret projects are Chinese? Nah! They wouldn't spy on us, would they? Or, perhaps, with the kind of "friends" we have, the ChiComs don't have to bother spying on us.
When our SEALS went into Pakistan to whack OBL, they apparently were using "super-secret, stealth" choppers to get them in and out. And, as usual, something went wrong and they were forced to blow-up one of the birds and leave it there. Surely, not the brightest military decision ever made. And, with the commies and PC'ized wimps running our govt. agencies these days, no one seems to have had the brains to make sure we either got it back ASAP, or went back in and vaporized it. That, apparently, would have "offended" our sensitive "friends", the Pakistanies.
And what did our sensitive friends do? You guessed it. They handed it to the ChiComs who now know more about that super-secret chopper than even Poots knows. Maybe. And we wonder why the whole world laughs at us...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/09700746-c681-11e0-bb50-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V80sd4fK
5 comments:
BOHICA!!!
We knew it as it unfolded, but some are starting to admit it. Just watch for the choppers and planes on their new aircraft carrier that we were so surprised we just deployed! Yup, our gov't is on the ball and worth every cent our great-great grandchildren will be saddled with. Just kidding. The US will be gone long before that.
should say "they just deployed" rather than "we just deployed". I'm still not used to being part of a 3rd world country.
What they 'deployed' was an old Soviet carrier that never got finished in the first place. And THAT means it's 30 to 40 year old technology at best. It's conventionally powered, which means tons of DFM to drive it around.
AND last but not LEAST, we are and have been for 70 odd years THE guys to steal from! Do you expect them to steal from Uganda? Or Paraguay?
Our gub'ment has been to loose with (supposed) secrets since 5 minutes after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed. It's been an ongoing problem that we have NOT sent anyone to sit in Old Sparky since then, IMO. But there are always people who think one entity should not have more power than another entity. Unfortunately many of these people are now working / living in the WH, Congress or elsewhere in the federal gubment!
But I gotta question. How is this any bigger a problem than when we were going to allow the FRENCH to build our new Air Tanker a few years ago? Or when we were going to buy tanks from Sweden?
IF we even consider buying, leasing, renting OUR military hardware from someone who's FIRST loyalty isn't to the U.S. we're off the right path, IMO. And we started accepting foreign bids (correct me here for the timeline Brother Poots) about 10 or 12 years ago. THAT was a bad decision!
My summation is that we are, as with much now, NOT thinking as a country out to PROTECT itself! After all, protecting yourself is SSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 19th Century.
(unless you hate America anyway!) (and Pakistan and China pretty much ain't exactly our drinking buddies!)
Steve, you make a good point about us not being able/willing to protect our own secrets, especially as you say, we are the guys to steal from. But that fact is what should make us really try to keep these secrets because without them, we have no edge over anyone else. But, since we can no longer do anything by ourselves or on our own, perhaps we've reached the point where thing like secrets and privacy are no longer realistic expectations
Having said that, do you really think the ChiComs would put a 40 year old Russian carrier out to sea without first refitting it with 21st century technology? (which they have, thanks to us)
We just seem to get dumber and dumber.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug
/16/computer-labs-parts-raise-spy-concerns/
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