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| Photos of a Lockheed Martin employee surfaced on the Internet indicating that he spends a few hours taking snapshots of the J-31/FC-31 static display, hoping to find signs of intellectual property infringement. Good luck! |
The above photos were posted on the J-31 facebook page and they ... well you can read the caption.
Is LM actually sending people to the Chinese Air Show and checking the model to see if they can find evidence of theft of intellectual property?
This has to be propaganda! China stole the tech and the US govt, LM, BAE and the other stake holders in this program rolled over. If that actually is a LM employee then my guess is that he's looking for partnership opportunities with Communist China. International defense firms have only customers...no loyalty and no nationality.
Sidenote: To the employees of defense firms. Don't react emotionally to that statement! I believe that you are loyalist (the vast majority anyway), but I don't believe it extends to the boardroom or many of the "big" shareholders.
Probably looking for ideas on how to fix the fk' ups on the F-35 design.
ReplyDeleteAt least as likely as looking for stolen intellectual property on a wooden mockup that is actually much different than the plane flying on the airshow.
DeleteMr.T, that comment was so much win.
DeleteIf LM's next plane is completely made of wood, we know what happened. lol
"We followed everything right down to the last detail, even the wooden engines!"
Is he even an LM employee? For all we know, he could be a blogger for Chinese stuff!
ReplyDeleteAnd GL trying to sue, stealth design and equations are open source, the original stealth equations were Russian that Russia could not use, so they tossed it into the open library. Bet they regret that now.
That is also why there are scads of countries with "stealth" design these days. Open source. China, Russia, Korea etc.
Building and Funding that POS might be the only thing that slows their machine down. It would be funny if one (or close facsimile) horrible plane brought down the all of air-forces of the world via procurement.
ReplyDeleteChinese will still be building planes 20-30mio its western airforces thar are all but decimated just to buy 200mio $ planes.
DeleteFind me a CEO or shareholder in any major corporation, ANY, that could be considered loyal and nationalistic? You think the CEOs of Google or whatever are any different?
ReplyDeletehow about the Chairman of AVIC? wow. too easy! try again!
DeleteBut the Chairman of AVIC will obviously be a ex-PLAAF or Intelligence guy. And any employee let alone a chairman will naturally have to be a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Stuff that we dont even consider in our civilian/semi-civilian companies here.
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