Posted on 04/16/2014 7:00:23 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who worked for defense contractor Pratt & Whitney, was arrested last week for allegedly trying to smuggle boxes of documents related to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the plane expected to be the Pentagon’s next generation fighter jet. He was picked up in New Jersey on his way to Iran.
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I would imagine that any downloads of documents, plans etc are closely monitored and could be traced.
“They couldn’t build one even if could give them all the documents, CAD files, and tooling.”
Iran would “share” the documents with Russia, Pakistan, and/or China; whoever the highest bidders would be for assistance in using the technologies to design, construct, and/or develop counter-weapons.
Yes, I was aware of that. The way Florence is run, those two shitbirds could be neighbors, and never know it. It’s where they belong.
You don’t have to build a replica of the F-35 in order to make good use of the information. Russia, China, and Pakistan will pay several fortunes to have access to the information for a variety of purposes, including the development of counter-weapon systems.
Absolutely!
Ron/Rand Paul to the rescue — “if I were Iran, I’d want the F-35 too!”
It’s only a matter of time.
Thanks WhiskeyX.
> He was picked up in New Jersey on his way to Iran.
Heck, while working for a major defense contractor, my boss hired a 20-something female as a entry-level program trainee (not a secretary, a person that would train to lead programs). She was from Illinois.
Didn't know until she was hired that she was married to a Iranian and he worked for Al Jabba-the-Hut arab tv station. Can't ask personal questions during the hiring process.
Argh. . .some people saw her lurking in office hallways she was not expected to be or have a reason to be. From then on we always were careful what we said around her, what she was allowed access to, and always locked up our desks and documents. . .even though they were not classified.
Since we don’t know what the information is beyond being printed brochures and manuals, we don’t really know how valuable it is. A 787 Dreamliner sales brochure, for example, is hardly detailed enough to actually build a Dreamliner.
I may have missed it, but I don’t think article even said the manuals and brochures were classified. Using the Dreamliner as an example again, I know it doesn’t have a bleed air system from reading a sales brochure. That hardly means I can design the electric starter motors for the Dreamliner’s engines or even agree an all-electric start system is the best approach (I only know as much about the 787 as what I’ve read in articles).
I’m not saying this information (whatever it is) has no value. Everything you know about an enemy could potentially help, but I think the article is trying to make it sound bad. It might be very bad, but we don’t know.
So an F-35 employee ships some F-35 manuals and brochures in household goods? That doesn’t sound so nefarious to me. It would be so much easier for him to scan and destroy paper documents and hide a DVD in the shipment or carry a thumb drive, wouldn’t it? I mean, if he was really trying to hide something, wouldn’t he pick a better method? He even claimed he was shipping books. That sounds like a term I might use for a box of manuals and brochures.
He wasn’t stealing them, Obama gave them to him.
I’m surprised El-Presidente didn’t just give Iran a sample jet to work with. That’s what he did with the drones.
Why would anyone hire a Iranian? A Chines? A Russian? at a defense plant?! During WW@ no one would think about hiring a Nazi.
Chinese....
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