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Submitted by Trevor on May 28, 2013 – 6:16 pm
This is no joke folks. This puts millions of lives at risk. Maybe even U.S. national survival.
From Russia Today:
The designs for more than two dozen major weapons
systems used by the United States military have fallen into the hands of
the Chinese, US Department of Defense officials say.
Blueprints for the Pentagon’s most advanced weaponry, including
the Black Hawk helicopter and the brand new Littoral Combat Ship used by
the Navy, have all been compromised, the Defense Science Board claims
in a new confidential report.
The Washington Post acknowledged late Monday that they have seen a
copy of the report and confirmed that the Chinese now have the know-how
to emulate some of the Pentagon’s most sophisticated programs.
“This is billions of dollars of combat advantage for China,” a
senior military official not authorized to speak on the record told Post
reporters. “They’ve just saved themselves 25 years of research and
development.”
“It’s nuts,” the source said of the report.
The Defense Science Board, a civilian advisory committee within
the Pentagon, fell short of accusing the Chinese of stealing the
designs. However, the Post’s report comes on the heels of formal
condemnation courtesy of the DoD issued only earlier this month.
“In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including
those owned by the US government, continued to be targeted for
intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the
Chinese government and military,” the Defense Department alleged in a
previous report.
Ellen Nakashima, the Post reporter who detailed the DSB analysis
this week, wrote that the computer systems at the Pentagon may not have
necessarily been breached. Instead, rather, she suggested that the
defense contractors who built these weapons programs have likely been
subjected to a security breach. US officials speaking on condition of
anonymity, she reported, said that a closed door meeting last year ended
with evidence being presented of major defense contractors suffering
from intrusions. When reached for comment, the largest defense
contractors — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman —
all refused to weigh in.
Chinese hackers have previously been accused of waging
cyberattacks on a number of US entities, including billion-dollar
corporations and governmental departments. In 2007 it was reported that
China accumulated the blueprints for the Pentagon’s F-35 fighter jets,
the most expensive weapons program ever created, but the latest news
from the DSB decries that much more has been compromised.
According to the Post, the plans for the advanced Patriot missile
system, an Army anti-ballistic program and a number of aircraft have
all ended up in the hands of the Chinese. The result could mean the
People’s Republic is working towards recreating the hallmarks of
America’s military might for their own offensive purposes, while also
putting China in a position where even the most advanced weaponry in the
world won’t be able to withstand complex defensive capabilities once
those projects are reverse engineered.
“If they got into the combat systems, it enables them to understand it to be able to jam it or otherwise disable it,” Winslow T. Wheeler,
director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on
Government Oversight, told the Post. “If they’ve got into the basic
algorithms for the missile and how they behave, somebody better get out a
clean piece of paper and start to design all over again.”
Mandiant, a US security firm located outside of Washington,
reported earlier this year that China has enlisted an elite squadron of
cyber warrior to attack American computer systems and conduct espionage
on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army. When the report was released
in February, Mandiant said the PLA’s elusive Unit 61398 has successfully
compromised the networks of more than 141 companies across 20 major
industries, including Coca-Cola and a Canadian utility company. Those
hacks reportedly subsided after Mandiant went public with their claims,
but earlier this month the firm said those attacks have since been
renewed.
“They dialed it back for a little while, though other groups that
also wear uniforms didn’t even bother to do that,” CEO Kevin Mandia
told the New York Times recently. “I think you have to view this as the
new normal.”
On their part, China has adamantly denied all claims that they’ve
waged attacks on US networks. Following Mandiant’s initial report, a
spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said the claims were
“irresponsible and unprofessional.”
“Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous,” Hong Lei said.
“Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don’t know how
the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable.”
So much for the notion, popular in even some conservative circles,
that China would never attack America, because “we owe them too much
money.”
China has a huge social time bomb ticking. Millions of young men will
never marry, because of the shortage of women caused by the “one child”
policy.
China’s Communist rulers know that those young men could turn on them, at a moment’s notice.
A war with America, in conjunction with Russia, Iran, Cuba, North
Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Islamic terrorists, would solve two
major problems for China.
Firstly, it would eliminate millions of troublesome young men.
Secondly, the Chinese are confident it would deliver them the best
substantial chunk of “living space” on the planet – the Continental
United States. Siberia? Or California, Colorado and the Carolinas? Which
would you choose?
If any American seriously doesn’t think China is planning for a major
war, please contact me. I own a bridge in New York that you might be
interested in buying.
And we thought it was bad when the Made in China merchandise sold at Wal-Mart helped China pay for their new, modern aircraft carrier.
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