Why are people responsible for that not jailed for a longtime and/or executed? In many cases, it’s not the ability to use the equipment or even to build the equipment (even the ones with sensitive technologies). It’s the many years and many dollars of R&D, and the trial and error process, that is key. If China gets sensitive information on the Raptor or JSF it doesn’t mean they will build something truly analogous. No. But it does mean that they cut years off R&D, and start off knowing what works.
Case in point - when Toshiba sold high performance metal milling equipment to the Soviets in the 80s that enabled the USSR to jump a generation of evolution in submarine quieting (due to quieter propellers). It’s not that the Soviets didn’t know how to do it, it’s that they didn’t have the equipment to do so plus it saved them a lot of time/years they would have taken to get there.
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