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To: ninenot
Nice catch. I hadn't noticed the date.

This is SOP for China. They will have JDAM technology with this deal.

20 posted on 02/07/2003 11:34:57 AM PST by batter
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To: soccer8; ninenot; honway
Bush could stop this if he wanted to. Remember that when thinking of China deals.
21 posted on 02/10/2003 10:06:01 AM PST by B4Ranch
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To: soccer8
This is SOP for China. They will have JDAM technology with this deal.

They will have technology for sintering (i.e., hot-pressing metallic powders into a solid shape) magnets. Let's try to be a wee bit more precise than the technologically-illiterate press is.

As for JDAM technology as a whole--I would be extremely surprised if they didn't have the basic technologies already. JDAM uses GPS, which is a publicly-available service. The description of the JDAM concept goes back at least ten years. It's not a huge amount of work to make a bomb that steers itself to a prespecified target using GPS signals.

22 posted on 02/10/2003 10:15:01 AM PST by Poohbah (Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
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