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To: joe fonebone
China, the most likely military opponent of the US, is aknowingly allowing the production and export of substandard components that are ending up in US defense systems.

Setting aside all of the reasons they might see this as beneficial to their ends, a) does it really matter whether they did so intentionally? and b) is there anything wrong with being concerned about it?

35 posted on 05/22/2012 9:56:20 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter; joe fonebone
China, the most likely military opponent of the US, is knowingly allowing the production and export of substandard components that are ending up in US defense systems.

So what? You just trust that whatever someone ships you from within the US is not substandard?

What responsibility (in your world) does the system manufacturer have to test and validate the systems they build with imported or domestic components?

How about I reword your statement to be more in line with actual manufacturing practices?

The US Military is knowingly procuring US defense systems with substandard testing which can't tell the difference between standard and substandard components.

Why didn't they write that? Because mil-spec and even cots acquisition for avionics and such is so stringent that what these stories tell me is that these "counterfeit" parts are probably either very high-quality knockoffs, or, more likely, are production endstock that wasn't accounted for, or fell of a chicom mob truck. It is NOT a magic back door to F22s.

55 posted on 05/22/2012 11:11:27 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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