NSA Details Chinese Cyber Theft of F-35, Military Secrets

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 22 Jan 2015 | Bill Gertz

[LeoWindhorse]

I hope it includes the planted misinformation about the certain crucial explosive bolts , that are not really meant to be explosive bolts ....

[Mark17]

The fact that it worked as a wild weasel

To the best of my knowledge, aardvarks (111s) were never used as Wild Weasels.

[barefoot_hiker]

Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the F35, not Northrop Grumman. NG is a sub.

[yarddog]

I think they made pretty good attack bombers. Fighter bombers? or whatever they are called.

It was pretty neat watching those cameras photographing the bombs dropping, exploding and fading in the distance as the planes made their getaway.

[Spktyr]

EF-111A was an EW and ‘air defense suppression’ aircraft. Wild weasel by any other name...

[Spktyr]

I didn’t write the article.

[Secret Agent Man]

omg i now understand the entire purpose of the f-35.

build a plane with tons of problems, outdated stuff, hype’it to high heaven,

china steals the craptacular design and is stuck with a plane that doesn’t work.

i get it now.

[mvpel]

I did this in 2011 - looks like I was right.

[Spktyr]

Joke’s on us if they make it work and we don’t, though. See the history of atomic power and the bomb.

[Secret Agent Man]

they can’t even build their own jet engines.

[Spktyr]

Neither could the Russians until the Brits were stupid enough to sell them the Rolls Nene engine. Guess who the Chinese have been importing from in turn?

[Spktyr]

Also, they can make hard drives - most are made there now - so their machining isn’t the problem. Metallurgy isn’t going to be terribly far behind.

[Mark17]

EF-111A was an EW and ‘air defense suppression’ aircraft. Wild weasel by any other name...

Yes, they were brimming with electronic suppression. When I was at Lakenheath, those FB-111 pilots spoke lovingly of their airplanes. They gave me a sticker, with a picture of a FB-111, with a mushroom cloud behind it, and it said "Warsaw Pact central heating" How non PC is that? It was FBs that attacked Libya (among others, maybe) and one failed to return. When I was at Travis, they had a missing man formation ceremony for that. I cleared them for takeoff. It was awesome.

[minnesota_bound]

Why was any of this data on a network connected to the internet?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Seems like the best way to screw China up was to let them steal the F-35. :)

[Spktyr]

Because we elected incompetent people along with a huge security risk to run the country.

[Secret Agent Man]

i know but they’ve still never been able to make their own 100% chinese engine that doesn’t fail. and it’s been 4-5 decades.

[Spktyr]

Does it really matter when they’re buying and stockpiling them in huge numbers from ‘partners’ or even third party countries?

[Spktyr]

I’d also commend the WS-10A to your attention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_WS-10

[fella]

Is it theft when the secretes are given away by order of the CNC?