To: Huber
We now buy all of the rare earth magnets for our cruise missiles from plants in Russia.
A Russian company bought the remaining two plants in the US, and now the manufacturing of those magnets is done in a non-allied, non-NATO country.
How was this allowed to happen? These aren't buggy whips.
226 posted on
01/02/2004 2:50:17 PM PST by
RinaseaofDs
(Only those who dare truly live - CGA 88 Class Motto)
To: RinaseaofDs
226 - "We now buy all of the rare earth magnets for our cruise missiles from plants in Russia."
how about elaborating, rare earth magnets are normally not so rare.
253 posted on
01/02/2004 10:03:52 PM PST by
XBob
To: RinaseaofDs
A'hem. CHINA...not Russia owns Magnequench. Moved the plants to Tianjin, China. Word is that Rumsfeld was AGAIN ordered by GWB to just let it happen, despite his intentions to stop it.
336 posted on
01/03/2004 4:04:02 PM PST by
Paul Ross
(Reform Islam Now! -- Nuke Mecca!)
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