Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XXX


Not available online, from DefenseNews - it looks like the Chinese are keeping an eye on the long game.
There are concerns China's counter stealth research and development program will me mated with the S-300 system. China has a special interest in shooting down the U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Th eimage of a B-2 in the cross hairs appears on the PLAAF air defense college patch.

In 2005, Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia was arrested by U.S. officials and accused of selling B-2 secrets to China. Gowadia, a naturalized U.S. citizen from India, was a Northrop Grumman aeronautical engineer from 1968 to 1986 who worked on the B-2. He specialized in the B-2's infrared suppressing propulsion system, going so far as dubbing himself as one of the "fathers" of the B-2

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