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To: sam_paine
LOL. A cable box has zero overlap with AK47 tooling. And before you get your Star Trek fantasies out, a consumer grade satellite TV receiver does you no good trying to build aerospace/military avionics, unless they want 100% failure rate in the field.

YOU are ignorant at best. Here is an example of a benign factory turned into a deadly production facility. A christmas light factory was converted into a proximity fuze production facility during WWII

First large scale production of tubes for the new fuzes[1] was at a General Electric plant in Cleveland, Ohio formerly used for manufacture of Christmas-tree lamps. Fuze assembly was completed at General Electric plants in Schenectady, New York and Bridgeport, Connecticut.[10]

Keep LOL-ing the joke is on us.

36 posted on 12/21/2011 6:53:08 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
"Proximity fuse" and "light bulb."

"Supersonic inertial guidance system" and "cable box."

I'm not trying to browbeat you, but you really need to understand the g-shock requirements, radiation hardening and thermal packaging issues to name a very few problems before you get carried away with your argument.

A WWII era proximity fuse on a bomb is a subsonic toy compared to modern military technology in a supersonic Chinese cruise missile or ICBM....which they build now in dedicated factories without any help from us.

Using consumer-grade technology from Intel or Broadcom in Chinese military equipment would make it completely useless as soon as they launched it at 100G's. Do you understand that?

39 posted on 12/21/2011 7:02:17 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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