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USA Plans To Build Fighter Jets In India

Mike

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What could possibly go wrong? (Beating my head on the ground.)
https://aclj.org/national-security/president-obamas-fighter-jet-jobs-and-defense-technology-giveaway-to-india?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=siteSharer
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Lockhead and boeing need to be cut off completely by Trumps defense department. Terminate all contracts immediately and watch them fold up and die.

It would give real American companies a chance to prosper and keep our military secrets ours.

The us tax payer built lockhead and they need to put them down because they're obviously rabid.
 

Traveler

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A Hindu, vegetarian friendly fighter jet would make perfect sense to Buckwheat. Whatever it takes to keep the Israelis in check.
 

Mike

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Building a jet fighter manufacturing facility on the other side of the world makes no sense whatsoever. We would be forced to protect it from any adversaries in case of a disagreement/war with others. But then again, most of the avionics in modern jets comes from Japan. In Boeing contracted facilities.
 

Steve

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why not just buy Russian helicopters as well,...

Congress fuming over U.S. purchase of Russian helicopters for Afghanistan

For its latest order of 30 helicopters, the Defense Department sidestepped a congressional ban imposed last year on using fiscal 2013 funds to buy anything from Rosoboronexport. Instead, the military found money in its 2012 Afghanistan budget to finance the nearly $600 million contract.

Adding insult to perceived injury, the Pentagon said it would have gone ahead with the contract even if it had to use 2013 funds, under a waiver provision in the ban that allows it to take action it determines to be in U.S. national security interests.

“Gosh sakes, we won the vote 407 to 5,” fumed Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va.), who spearheaded the prohibition in the House.


here is what is really wrong with this deal... beyond the jobs.
an air officer briefed on the Make-in-India plans under which a foreign manufacturer will partner local firms to build the aircraft with technology transfer.
Obama is a complete idiot.
 

Mike

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Obama's not the only idiot.


Clinton Approves Technology Transfer to China
By JOHN M. BRODERMAY 11, 1999

The Clinton Administration notified Congress today that it had approved the export of technology to China to permit the launching of a communications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket next month.

President Clinton said in a letter to Congress that the transfer would not harm national security or significantly improve China's military capability in space. The President was required under a 1998 law to certify that all such technology exports are in the national interest.

The certification was the first such notice to Congress under the law, which was passed in the aftermath of a Congressional uproar last year over the transfer of sensitive missile technology to China.

Mr. Clinton's notification also follows by less than a week the release of a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which concluded that lax monitoring of the launching of American-made satellites aboard Chinese rockets had enhanced the accuracy of China's ballistic missile arsenal.

And the action comes three days after the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was inadvertently bombed in a NATO raid, touching off angry street protests in Beijing.

The President's action will affect the June 7 launching of a Motorola Iridium satellite, which is to fly into low orbit to provide paging and cellular telephone service. Mr. Clinton said that he had approved the export of satellite fuel and explosive bolts, which eject the satellite from its launch vehicle.

Today's action was the final approval needed for the launch, which was first authorized in July 1993. A license for the export of the satellite itself was granted in November.

''The timing of this certification is not connected in any way to the tragic accident of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy,'' said David Leavy, a spokesman for the National Security Council. ''Approval was recommended by the Departments of Commerce, State and Defense and is consistent with our policy of supporting the launch of U.S. communications satellites by China subject to strong safeguards being in place.''

A staff member of the intelligence panel said it was unlikely to contest the approval of the technology. But he said questions might be raised over whether the explosive bolts might someday be used to help eject nuclear warheads from a missile.
 
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