Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Why am I not surprised the Chinese have hacked US stupidly expensive weapons systems? Why is that?

WASHINGTON | Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:53pm EDT

...The U.S. military (click here) is in the process of making tough decisions due to mandatory budget cuts from sequestration which went into effect March 1 and could lop off $46 billion of Pentagon spending this fiscal year.

Earlier this year, Pentagon budgeteers crunched the numbers on Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 in an exercise that spoke volumes about the troubles facing the world's most expensive weapons system and the Navy's uncertain commitment to it.

Postponing orders for about 40 of the 260 Navy models of the plane, which will take off from and land on aircraft carriers, would save money in the short-term, according to several defense officials familiar with the analysis, which has not been made public....

Could it be because the damn thing don't fly. Not only that but the engines can't stay intact. Hackers had nothing to do with that. Trillions of dollars down the drain. TRILLIONS that could have reduced our national debt. You want to know something, I think the virus the USA planted in Iran's nuclear system has something to do with this. Ya think? I'll go so far as to say it wasn't the Chinese but a bug from our own computer systems after it made the rounds of internet in Iran.

By Ellen NakashimaPublished: May 27


Designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive (click here) advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
Among more than two dozen major weapons systems whose designs were breached were programs critical to U.S. missile defenses and combat aircraft and ships, according to a previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board....