“On the other hand, their spies have probably obtained the blueprints for the naval rail gun and will probably deploy land and ship-based rail guns before too long...”
There’s going to be stuff in this design that won’t necessarily show up on a blueprint... like the metallurgy. Obama might sell that to them, or the geniuses in the defense contractor will probably lose control of that information to a PHD employee who just happens to be a Chinese national.
“There’s going to be stuff in this design that won’t necessarily show up on a blueprint... like the metallurgy.”
And then there is the fact that the Chinese have a virtual lock on rare earth element mining, having driven nearly all other countries out of the market by working their slave labor under poisonous conditions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element#Global_rare_earth_production