Posted on 12/12/2023 8:39:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Chinese intelligence officials offered a Taiwanese army pilot millions of dollars to steal a US-made transport helicopter and land on a Chinese aircraft carrier.
Lieutenant Colonel "Hsieh" was offered $15 million by Chinese spies to steal a Boeing CH-47 Chinook and land on a People's Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier during a military drill near the self-ruled island.
The plan to steal the Chinook came to an abrupt end when Taiwanese authorities arrested Hsieh in August for allegedly spying for Beijing.
In an indictment revealed by the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors Office on Monday, "Lieutenant Colonel Hsieh was asked to fly the helicopter at low altitude along the coastline to the Chinese Communist carrier which would be staging drills close to the waters 24 nautical miles [44km] off [Taiwan]."
According to prosecutors, the lieutenant colonel suggested that the PLA stage war drills near the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung so that he would not have to cross the Median line that separates the island and the mainland in the Taiwan Strait. The idea behind this would minimize any risk of the helicopter being intercepted by Taiwan's Air Force jets.
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The good news is that the US hasn’t stationed fifth-generation F-35 stealth jets on the island, which, presumably, the communist regime would be eager to steal.
Are CH-47 Chinooks in Taiwan really advanced and high-tech?
Or did China just want a global public propaganda event?
I’d be shocked if China didn’t already have at least a few Chinooks to reverse engineer, for decades.
Maybe they have some new electronics stuff in them that they haven’t been able to get from Biden.
Biden misses out on his $1.5mm.
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And I imagine that the pilot would be going over the side of the carrier five minutes after he landed.
“ The good news is that the US hasn’t stationed fifth-generation F-35 stealth jets on the island, which, presumably, the communist regime would be eager to steal.”
It’d be a good idea to station them there and use the country’s ports, too, like we did before Carter stopped it.
The CH 47s started flying in the late 1950s. Apart from avionics, hardly new technology. And how many of these aircraft did Biden leave behind in Afghanistan anyway?
“And how many of these aircraft did Biden leave behind in Afghanistan anyway?”
Bump!
He!!.
Clinton landed a spy plane at a chink airport and let them study it for a week.
This spy should get a BJ for his trouble.
He wouldn’t be breathing air by sundown in my world!
We could gift wrap an F-22, deliver it to Beijing, and they’d never be able to copy it. There are just too many precise technologies involved and China just can’t pull it off.
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