Posted on 06/15/2019 1:58:30 AM PDT by cba123
A Chinese-owned company is making circuit boards for the top-secret next generation F-35 warplanes flown by Britain and the United States, Sky News can reveal.
Exception PCB, a printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer in Gloucestershire, south west England, produces circuit boards that "control many of the F-35's core capabilities", according to publicity material produced by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
This includes "its engines, lighting, fuel and navigation systems", it said.
When asked about the firm's Chinese ownership, the MoD said Exception PCB is an established manufacturer of circuit boards to the defence industry and presents "no risk" to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter supply chain.
A director from the company said there are "clear firewalls in place" between Exception PCB and its Chinese parent company Shenzhen Fastprint.
But defence experts, including former defence ministers, expressed concern that a Chinese-owned company is producing any parts for such a classified, British and American fifth generation programme, because of long-standing fears about Chinese espionage and rivalry.
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The important thing is that some general gets a bonus paycheque.
Check the bank accounts of whatever DoD assholes signed off on this and then hang them.
Regardless of whether they are dumb circuit boards, no chicom owned company should ever make a dime off the US or UK taxpayer.
Globalism in a nutshell. Spit.
Chinese fighter pilots will have a disable switch when the time comes, smart
not too smart, is it, Mr. President.
Who got the money for this?
Is this the same Chinese company that makes parts for Boeing?
Unfrigginbelievable
Go into battle, push button, plane falls from sky.
Suicidal idiocy. We have met the enemy and it is us.
This Global economy is great! Ain’t it?
It's a UK based company making bare circuit boards to exact specification of the designers.
The company isn't even putting components on the PC boards.
There is no opportunity to either steal technology from the F-35, or to add nefarious things to the F-35, like an "off switch."
Don't get your panties in a bunch.
Get with the programme, mate.
Our political leaders are utterly insane, selling out national security for the saving of saving a few bucks/quid.
To a Chinese design that may well be designed with a means of spying on/disabling the aircraft?
Lunacy to depend on Red China for any military component or materiel.
“A capitalist will sell you the rope you’re going to hang him with.”
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