Utopia Talk / Politics / Ship full of F35 parts lost; in Hongkong

Jesse Malcolm Barack rank	Fri Sep 18 23:52:03 https://ww...sing-f-35-parts-lost-overseas/ Pentagon investigating missing F-35 spare parts lost overseas The Pentagon is investigating how sensitive technology in the F-35 fighter jet was diverted to Hong Kong and is currently unaccounted for, raising concerns that it could have made its way into the possession of the Chinese military. The shipment of parts was intended to go from Australia to the United States and included one of the jet’s canopies, which covers the cockpit and contains stealth technology, according to Politico. Instead, the parts for the Lockheed Martin-manufactured plane ended up in Hong Kong, and it’s unclear why or where those parts are now. The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office told the Washington Examiner it was “aware of a shipment issue of unserviceable F-35 Lightning II components,” and said the office is working with U.S. authorities and industry partners “to retrieve these components, investigate the incident, and place safeguards to avoid a future occurrence.” A House Armed Services Committee staffer confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the committee is “aware” of the incident. “We’ve received multiple briefings and are continuing to look into the incident,” the staffer said. The F-35A’s canopy involves an acrylic bubble with a thin layer of transparent radar-absorbent material that coats the exterior and helps keep the aircraft obscured from enemy radar. Over time, that layer can degrade, peel, and separate, requiring replacement to ensure fully mission-capable stealth. Approximately 20 countries have F-35 aircraft, including the U.S., Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. China, for its part, has frequently sought inside information on secret Pentagon programs, including the F-35. “Possibly losing a canopy in shipment is concerning,” the director in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Defense Capabilities and Management team told the Washington Examiner. “Possibly losing a canopy in Hong Kong (and thus the [People’s Liberation Army]) is even more concerning.” BREAKING DOWN THE MILITARY’S NEARLY $40 BILLION IRAN WAR “A canopy eventually ending up in an engineering lab in China is a much bigger problem,” she said, not confirming that this occurred but speculating on the possibility. “But if it did, it’s not good. The canopy has a lot of sensitive technology. If the Chinese nabbed one, they probably celebrated and then got busy learning as much as they could to reverse engineer components and figure out how to overcome components.” A 2023 GAO report found that over a five-year period, one F-35 prime contractor lost more than 1 million spare parts that cost more than $85 million. It noted that the Pentagon is expected to spend $1.7 trillion over the F-35 Lightning II aircraft’s program life cycle.
jergul rank	Fri Sep 18 23:56:12 The aircraft entered service more than a decade ago. The cat is out of the bag a long time ago.
murder rank	Sat Sep 19 03:42:11 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! :o) -
Sam Adams rank	Sat Sep 19 04:45:20 That's some norwegian level IQ.
Seb rank	Sat Sep 19 08:54:51 Jergul: An adversary can still likely do useful things with that like get better radar signatures etc. even if there's not much left to learn on things like radar coating or aerodynamics.
jergul rank	Sat Sep 19 09:12:11 Seb The problem with stealth is production techniques. Computer modelling is trivial at this point. Most of that was done on windows-98 OS driven PCs. Autocad was horrible back then :D. Dummy, stop believing in magick, though of course it helps you explain the many things you do not understand.
jergul rank	Sat Sep 19 09:14:10 So, well, useful to have a box of junk full of discarded f-35 parts to the extent they provide hints on how to produce efficiently. Which is a pretty big assumption given the ticket price of the aircraft. Assuming the parts were ever produced efficiently that is.
Sam Adams rank	Sat Sep 19 11:07:43 "An adversary can still likely do useful things with that like get better radar signatures etc" Already happened when you retards managed to lose one in Podunk India for a month https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gj2nlnywo Lol
jergul rank	Sat Sep 19 12:38:44 Dummy, it already happened years ago. The challenge is mass production when cost is a consideration. You have not figured that out, neither has China or Russia, so they sacrifice some stealth for ease of production and flight readiness reasons. Not everyone wants to be 250 dollars for a bolt, or have a fleet readiness in the low 10s%
Seb rank	Sat Sep 19 13:27:06 Jergul: I doubt it's reverse engineering (perhaps coatings - modern stuff involves doing stuff with structuring thin layers of substances precisely engineered refractive indexes etc). It's em signatures etc. Like how in the cold war they were constantly trying to find out about the shape of sub props not to copy them but to figure out acoustics.
Seb rank	Sat Sep 19 13:29:04 NaMBLA: Turned out to be a software error which is on you guys. If you guys actually allowed access to source code and IP transfer we wouldn't need to leave things in India for weeks for a US contractor to get their arse in gear to fly out and apply a fucking patch.
TheChildren rank	Sat Sep 19 14:43:11 lol dem flyin lemons is neva da gamechanga even iran took out several alrdy
jergul rank	Sat Sep 19 14:58:29 Seb If we really want to get into the nuts and bolts, then certainly, some companies in hong kong or the mainland may have uses for discarded F-35 parts, for whatever product development reasons you can imagine. China is not a monolith industrial beast.
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