I am not sure what possible use the Chinese could have of the details of the F-35. I mean, the Chinese are lending the Americans the money to build this albatross - at $200+million apiece.
Chinese hacker jailed for shipping aerospace secrets home
Chinese national Su Bin has been sentenced to 46 months jail after admitting his role in stealing information on the Lockheed F-22 and F-35 aircraft, along with Boeing's C-17 cargo plane. The aviation expert worked with two members of China's military to attack networks of Boeing and US and European defence contractors in …
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Friday 15th July 2016 13:04 GMT Triggerfish
I am not sure what possible use the Chinese could have of the details of the F-35. I mean, the Chinese are lending the Americans the money to build this albatross - at $200+million apiece.
I really couldn't guess.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Shenyang+J-31&safe=off&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfjPngw_XNAhVJvRoKHUawAEcQ_AUICCgB&biw=1530&bih=779
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Friday 15th July 2016 13:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Design data wouldn't really be of much use to a foreign power but performance & testing data would give them a very good idea of the true capabilities and limitations of these aircraft, telling them what they need to design against in their own aircraft and defence systems; they don't want to be able to copy these aircraft but to beat them.
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Saturday 16th July 2016 10:01 GMT Vic
Re: Light Sentence
I wonder though, before the arrest, how much misinformation they planted into the system which was then transferred to China?
I don't think they need to - there's F-35 data in there.
I wonder if anyone has correlated the slowdown in the Chinese economy with that nation's acquisition of F-35 secrets?
Vic.