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| Top Gun takeover: Stolen F-35 secrets showing up in ChinaÂ’s stealth fighter |
| 2014-03-13 |
| A cyber espionage operation by China seven years ago produced sensitive technology and aircraft secrets that were incorporated into the latest version of ChinaÂ’s new J-20 stealth fighter jet, according to U.S. officials and private defense analysts. The Chinese cyber spying against the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II took place in 2007 under what U.S. intelligence agencies codenamed Operation Byzantine Hades, a large-scale, multi-year cyber program that targeted governments and industry. Defense officials said the stolen data was obtained by a Chinese military unit called a Technical Reconnaissance Bureau in the Chengdu province. The data was then passed to the state-run Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC). An AVIC subsidiary, the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, used the stolen data in building the J-20, said defense and intelligence officials familiar with reports of the illicit tech transfer. Pentagon technology security officials in 2011 opposed a joint venture between General Electric and AVIC over concerns that U.S. fighter jet technology would be diverted to AVICÂ’s military aircraft programs. The Obama administration ignored the concerns and instead has since promoted the systematic loosening of technology controls on transfers to China. The Office of Director of National Intelligence is known to have details of AVICÂ’s past involvement in illicit arms transfers and its role in obtaining sensitive F-35 technology through cyber espionage, the officials said. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 Didn't these morons ever hear of a firewall? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-13 19:12 |
| #2 It's not stolen. They paid for it with illegal campaign contributions fair and square! |
| Posted by: Iblis 2014-03-13 16:56 |
| #1 Sounds good to me, let the Chinese bankrupt themselves, I recall a Comic where the Chinese stole a laptop with "The latest Managment Practices" And ruined themselves. So, let them steal all they want, (Obama's) Best Practices, and fail accordingly. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-03-13 16:40 |