Posted on 09/07/2022 11:26:43 AM PDT by Nextrush
Reading the whole article I get the impression this is being done in the present environment of China and Taiwan the disclosure so the issue can be put to be bed and not come out right before the election.
Same with car parts, drugs, medical equipment. The business class is more than happy to kill Americans with defective or contaminated Chinese products as long they make the big bucks.
The part is known as the double-secret discombobulation trigger...
“so the issue can be put to be bed and not come out right before the election”
And to do that all it takes is a risk assessment that says the risk is in the acceptable range and case closed.
The disadvantages of ordering parts on eBay ?
Let me guess - it tracks the plane, and sends real-time positioning signals to some unknown web address?
Of course not, It’s the FReeper way!..............😜
“... the magnet does not provide any visibility or access to sensitive program information and there are no safety issues for F-35s currently in use. “
Any time the Chinese are involved, at any level, even raw basic materials, they will find a way to use it for their own advantages one way or another..................
“In late August, Honeywell was notified by one of their third-tier suppliers for the turbomachine that they were using alloy sourced from China which was then magnetized in the United States, according to a statement from Lockheed.”
Figures. A rare earth element is involved no doubt.
If they do a serious audit, they’ll find at least 50% of the part are either made in China or made of components from China.
Since we decided to become a ‘service economy’ and also decided to ‘not get our hands dirty’ regarding manufacturing, we’ve pretty much outsourced the country...which is why we’ll pretty much be out of every weapon we’re sending to Russia (via Ukraine), by the end of the year.
See my # 21
China is the Saudi Arabia of Rare Earth Metals...................
Relax. The system worked. The parts were shipped and Honeywell’s vendor provided a material cert as per the contract. It’s that material the part is made from that is in question.
The problem is that China has a near monopoly on many rare earth materials. If the Honeywell vendor was being unscrupulous might have falsified the cert, but that’s not what they are saying.
Late buddy of mine used to work for an outfit on Long Island that supplied hardware to the aviation industry. There was a huge problem with counterfeit nuts, bolts etc. He used to tell me that it was not uncommon for the documentation to far outweigh the hardware being shipped.
When outsourcing your military components to/for critical systems backfires on globalist idiots.....
Anyone been fired or forced retired yet? Nope.
I made a statement years ago when I was at HP and we were getting ready to send some manufacturing over to China that they would copy/steal/install backdoors in the hardware. I was accused of being racist and xenophobic.
Yet we keep sending more work to China and there fore we continue to provide them with a veritable backdoor access to our critical weapons, infrastructure, and so on....just to save a few penny’s on the dollar.
It’s the material that’s at issue. For instance, a lot of aluminum is coming from China, and we can’t use it for military contracts. Trouble is the alloying element may only be mined in China. Perhaps the magnets themselves were fabricated in China, but they didn’t specifically say that. But a lot of times when your supplier is in Asia, the work may actually be done in China with a falsified paper trail.
More problematic is that parts of the Biden family and Congress critters have an unsavory relationship with the Chicoms.
Hardware is always tough because batch runs are often inventoried together. Different heat lots on the material. Hardware suppliers often can’t certify. Best you’ll get is a “Certificate of Conformance” unless you want to pay for a minimum production lot quantity.
Winning takes place only under a Trump administration.
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