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Ex-Rolls-Royce engineer nicked on suspicion of giving F-35 info to China

Milton

There was something the Chinese didn't know already?

I thought it was an open secret that the Chinese had swiped everything on the F-35 from Lockheed and subcontractors as long as a decade ago. I'm surprised they'd need any more information at this point. Maybe they're going back for more giggles.

No doubt they will be putting the information to good use, in a how-not-to-do-it kind of way: the F-35 is arguably an even worse mistake than F-111 was (not least because it includes many of the exact same blunders, top of the list being an absurd faith in the one-tool-good-at-everything notion so completely discredited with F-111).

Perhaps the Chinese wanted an update in case any extra cup-holders had been installed. Meantime, they can continue their strategy of delaying a war with the USA until the latter has decommissioned its effective teen-series planes and is nicely dependent upon the F-35 POS.

"Don't bother shooting at the cockpit, Xiang. Just put one round into the engine. The ejector seat will kill the pilot for you."

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