...Defence Secretary Philip Hammond (click here) is committed to buying 48 of the jump-jet variants of the aircraft to fly from the Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers from 2018, at an estimated total cost of £4.8 billion.
Until now the F-35’s invisibility – called ‘Very Low Observable’ or VLO stealth – had been achieved through its shape and paintwork, the formula for which is highly classified.
Stealth aircraft use flat surfaces and sharp edges to deflect radar signals and evade detection. The new threat to the F-35 comes from a new system called AESA – Active Electronically Scanned Array – which works by emitting separate radio waves on different frequencies.
By rapidly changing frequencies, the radar is more difficult to fool. China has incorporated AESA into a new radar system which it is fitting to its latest warships. The system is apparently capable of locating a stealth aircraft within 220 miles....
And where exactly has American manufacturing outsourced jobs? Overseas? Really?
The outsourcing and the hacking occurred under the Bush White House. You'll excuse me and who has a brother that simply loves China more than any other country on Earth?
PRI's The World
Reporter Matthew Bell
May 19, 2014 · 5:15 PM EDT
And where exactly has American manufacturing outsourced jobs? Overseas? Really?
The outsourcing and the hacking occurred under the Bush White House. You'll excuse me and who has a brother that simply loves China more than any other country on Earth?
PRI's The World
Reporter Matthew Bell
May 19, 2014 · 5:15 PM EDT
In an unprecedented move, (click here) US prosecutors have charged five Chinese military officers with economic espionage and computer hacking.
The indictment unsealed by the Justice Department on Monday names the men as officers in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and it details specific allegations of illegal cyber spying against American companies for the benefit of Chinese companies, including state-owned enterprises.
“State actors who engage in economic espionage, even over the Internet from far away places, like offices in Shanghai, will be exposed for their criminal conduct and sought for apprehension and prosecution in an American court of law,” Attorney General Eric Holder said during a news conference announcing the charges.
“Enough is enough,” Holder said. “This case should serve as a wake up call to the seriousness of the ongoing threat.”
James Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington, explained the implications of this very public move by the US Department of Justice....
And what US Secretary of the Treasury spent more time in China than the USA? What USA Secretary of the Treasury is now building wealth management firms in China? What exactly do Americans call national security these days? Treaties and Wall Street? That is national security ? Could have fooled me.
By Lewis Page
4 Sep 2007
Sources in Washington (click here) have indicated that the cyber attack last June which targeted the office of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates was conducted by the Chinese military.
According to a report in the London Financial Times, "senior US officials" and "persons familiar with the event" have briefed that there is a “very high level of confidence...trending towards total certainty” within the Pentagon that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) carried out the June attack. That was seen as a particularly significant event, apparently, as it involved disruption of networks as well as passive snooping....
The Indictment included large USA industry leaders. (click here)
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I have to wonder how much of American technology was stolen to build manufacturing in China with a cheap labor force? Is the Chinese brain trust able to actually develop the nation without spies and hackers?
The Indictment included large USA industry leaders. (click here)
I have to wonder how much of American technology was stolen to build manufacturing in China with a cheap labor force? Is the Chinese brain trust able to actually develop the nation without spies and hackers?
