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Officials: Fake weapons parts 'ticking time bomb'
Associated Press ^ | 11-08-11 | Donna Cassata

Posted on 11/17/2011 2:52:32 PM PST by FrogMom

It's a process of mixing authentic electronic parts with fake ones in hopes that the counterfeits will not be detected when companies test the components for multimillion-dollar missile systems, helicopters and aircraft.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chineseparts; fakeparts; military; weapons
After putting plastic in our dog food and baby formula, why on EARTH are we letting them make parts for weapons?
1 posted on 11/17/2011 2:52:33 PM PST by FrogMom
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To: FrogMom

Because we have lost our minds


2 posted on 11/17/2011 2:56:09 PM PST by Steve Newton
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To: FrogMom; Steve Newton

We are not “LETTING” them do anything.

We have made it so costly to manufacture parts here that it’s profitable for people to counterfeit them.

Chips, purses, whatever.


3 posted on 11/17/2011 2:59:28 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: FrogMom

..because Clinton along with many others in his administration, thought the US as too powerful and we were to allow others the opportunity to advance and “catch up”....
Check Albright’s reasoning


4 posted on 11/17/2011 3:00:10 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: FrogMom
HEY, I've got a GREAT IDEA: "Let's buy parts for our Weapons Systems from the Chicoms."

Now what could possibly go wrong with this "brilliant" suggestion???

BEAM TO F _ _ K UP, SCOTTY!!!

5 posted on 11/17/2011 3:01:04 PM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
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To: FrogMom

it isn’t “letting”, it is infiltration of non-Chinese factories.

America needs AMERICAN FOUNDRIES!
The higher initial Unit cost is more than offset by the risk associated with counterfeit parts ending up in critical systems.


6 posted on 11/17/2011 3:02:02 PM PST by G Larry (Catholic Conservative Supporting Israel!)
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7 posted on 11/17/2011 3:03:13 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Doogle

Doogle, you are right! Lefties think it’s unfair for us to have a monopoly as a superpower! Long before the Clintons, the concept was carried out by an atomic researcher named Ted Hall (Theodore Alvin Holtzberg). Wiki him sometime! It’s absolute madness.


8 posted on 11/17/2011 3:05:04 PM PST by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: FrogMom
hearing examining the national security and economic implications of suspect counterfeit electronics — mostly from China — inundating the Pentagon's supply chain.

We are nuts.

9 posted on 11/17/2011 3:19:57 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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Donate Today!

10 posted on 11/17/2011 4:31:37 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: RedMDer

How bout instead of subsidizing a solar panel company or a smallpox vaccine that is redundant and could never get approved by the FDA, we instead invest in companies to make weapons parts for OUR Military!!!???


11 posted on 11/17/2011 7:19:04 PM PST by matchgirl (He made it worse.)
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