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'It came from me': How a man from Mumbai helped China steal the B-2 and build a bomber of its own
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Posted on 06/24/2025 2:16:47 AM PDT by libh8er

Now serving a 32-year sentence in the supermax prison at Florence, Colorado, Gowadia confessed in his final statement to the FBI: “What I did was espionage and treason… I shared military secrets with the PRC.”

As the U.S. deployed its B-2 Spirit bombers to vaporize Iran’s underground nuclear sites in a high-stakes precision strike, a chilling echo stirred half a world away.

On a barren airstrip in western China, a ghostly war machine—eerily similar in shape and scale to the B-2—rolled into view. It wasn’t just mimicry. It was theft, nearly two decades in the making—facilitated by a brilliant Indian-American engineer who once held the Pentagon’s deepest secrets in the palm of his hand.

On May 14, 2025, new satellite imagery captured by The War Zone revealed a flying-wing stealth aircraft parked at a classified test facility near Malan, Xinjiang—one of China’s most secretive military-industrial sites. With its massive 52-meter wingspan, tailless design, and signature bat-wing silhouette, the aircraft looked unmistakably like America’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.

The timing raised eyebrows—but it’s the backstory that turns this into a geopolitical thriller.

Nearly two decades earlier, in 2005, FBI agents raided a lavish $3.5 million cliffside villa in Haiku, Maui. Their target: Noshir Gowadia, a Mumbai-born propulsion engineer who had played a key role in designing the B-2’s ultra-secret exhaust system—a marvel of engineering that allowed the bomber to evade radar and infrared detection alike.

Known as “Blueberry Milkshake” inside Northrop’s vaults, Gowadia was more than a cog in the machine; he was one of its inventors.

What agents found in his home would later shake the U.S. intelligence community: hundreds of documents marked classified, detailed schematics of stealth nozzles, and email records tying him to Chinese government operatives.

Gowadia had taken multiple clandestine trips to Chengdu and Shenzhen—cities deeply embedded in China’s military-industrial network—where he presented Chinese officials with powerpoints explaining how to make cruise missiles disappear from radar and infrared sensors. In return, he was paid over $110,000, routed through offshore accounts and Swiss banks.

Cont’d….


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 2005; 2025; 202505; 20250514; aerospaceengineering; b2; b2spirit; blueberrymilkshake; chengdu; china; exhaustnozzles; gowadia; indianamerican; malan; mumbai; northrup; noshirgowadia; shenzhen; spies; spooks; stealth; stealthbomber; traitor; xinjiang
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To: CodeToad
It is sickening that so many people who hate America get citizenship and high security clearances only to turn spy. We are loaded with them.

Cheap labor comes at a price. In any event, why should Americans be chosen to get into STEM graduate programs when actual enemy aliens can be accepted instead? /s

If he had been in the old Boy Scouts growing up, he might have read the section in the manual about respect for the flag. The campus malarky revolutionaries would have to find others for their religious flag burning ceremonues.

21 posted on 06/24/2025 4:09:12 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: NoLibZone

“The Chinese haven’t had an original thought in over 2,000 years.”

You do not know the Chinese. They have twice as many in China than in the US living far better than you do.


22 posted on 06/24/2025 4:13:27 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

“They have twice as many in China than in the US living far better than you do.”

They also have millions of people still living in caves.


23 posted on 06/24/2025 4:17:58 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: PLMerite

In essence, so do we. Lots of “homeless”. Lots of welfare recipients that without welfare would live in caves too.


24 posted on 06/24/2025 4:20:46 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: StolarStorm

Never Trust Democrats.


25 posted on 06/24/2025 4:40:40 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: libh8er

Wow, reading this while drinking my morning coffee…..hell of a way to start the day.😠


26 posted on 06/24/2025 4:42:24 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: StolarStorm

Absolutely true. No integrity whatsoever. A culture of shortsightedness and narcissism.


27 posted on 06/24/2025 4:47:03 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: NoLibZone

“The Chinese haven’t had an original thought in over 2,000 years.”

Not true at all.

As for stealing military plans it saves them billions and years on R&D to have someone else do it for them.

And the perp should have been found out by CI years ago. Somebodys weren’t paying attention.


28 posted on 06/24/2025 4:52:11 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: magooey
"It is sickening that so many people who hate America get citizenship and high security clearances only to turn spy. We are loaded with them."

We do it to ourselves. Just from listening to them talk I wouldn't think any of those gals on "The Squad" would have any allegiance to the U.S.A. in any way, shape or form. And yet there they are, walking the halls of congress.

29 posted on 06/24/2025 4:54:45 AM PDT by unread
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To: StolarStorm

“Never trust Indians. Ever.”

I learned that at IBM. They will treat you like a servant if you let them.


30 posted on 06/24/2025 5:03:21 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: libh8er

Nobody needs to know when he is taken out back and shot!


31 posted on 06/24/2025 5:10:05 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: 9YearLurker

“Separately, but related, why do we still have an H1B program?”

Corporations.


32 posted on 06/24/2025 5:10:35 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: libh8er
Gowadia had taken multiple clandestine trips to Chengdu and Shenzhen—cities deeply embedded in China’s military-industrial network—where he presented Chinese officials with powerpoints explaining how to make cruise missiles disappear from radar and infrared sensors. In return, he was paid over $110,000, routed through offshore accounts and Swiss banks.

How do our intelligence services fail to monitor the travels of someone working on top-secret projects?

He sold out cheap. I guess that's another way to evade questions. So was it ideology? Attention? The thrill?

33 posted on 06/24/2025 5:14:38 AM PDT by heartwood (Please blame all ridiculous or iinappropriate words on autocorrect. Thank you. )
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To: StolarStorm

Rsenburg was Indian? The spy who gave nuclear bomb secrets?


34 posted on 06/24/2025 5:14:59 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POLITICIANS. )
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To: Sirius Lee

He should have been the guest of honor at a Rosenberg Rope Rodeo.


That would be the Rosenberg Electric Rodeo

or

The Rosenberg Musical Chairs Electric Rodeo.


35 posted on 06/24/2025 5:16:55 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: CodeToad

The poor Chinese scavenge through garbage piles for something to eat. Homeless in the USA go to the nearest shelter for a meal.

There is no welfare in China.

No comparison.


36 posted on 06/24/2025 5:20:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PLMerite
They also have millions of people still living in caves.

I've been to China. Most live well. I've never seen such an abundance and variety of food anywhere else. The cave dwellers they do have do so by choice, not desperation. I have even seen them make cave dwellings by hacking out rock. Those are really pretty neat.

37 posted on 06/24/2025 5:25:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: libh8er

There more to the B-2 than what the perp told them. Meanwhile, as the Chinese try to get a working example of an ancient B-2 flying, the US has moved on to the B-21.


38 posted on 06/24/2025 5:26:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: GingisK

Everything and everyone in the PRC is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

If some of the slaves live better than other slaves it is because it enriches the State.


39 posted on 06/24/2025 5:47:59 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: libh8er
It wasn't just China buying the secrets.

"...the new indictment charges that his lust for money went even further as he shopped U.S. defense secrets to individuals in Israel, Germany and Switzerland, as well China."

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2645205&page=1

40 posted on 06/24/2025 6:05:00 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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