I never said we were dependent on China. I said that some counterfit parts from China have managed to get into the supply chain.
When I was a submariner in the 1980’s. We would always hear rumors about the Soviets trying to sabotage us with counterfit parts. The rumors were not true. There were never any Soviet parts in our boats.
Like I said, the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013 is going to fix the counterfit problem.
We make about 95% of our military hardware incuding parts.
LOL. Nope of course there wasn’t counterfeit many parts in the 80’s. We made most of them here on our soil. The exodus to overseas manufacturing hadn’t fully gotten started and wiser leadership kept China out of places like Los Alamos and other DOD facilities.. Our leadership still had some USA national security comes first principles. After January 1989 however that policy and those principles dropped like a rock. Both sides of the two parties sold out. We had presidents in office who had close family with vested interest in doing business in China