I recall when Loral was allowed to sell missile technology to Red China. It came in connection with a large cash transfer to Bill Clinton. At the time, it enabled the Chinese to engineer multiple warhead missiles, which had eluded them until Loral showed them how to do it.
I recall when Loral was allowed to sell missile technology to Red China
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Loral did not sell anything. The US had a missile launch in China - perfectly harmless, except the missile filled and crashed on Chinese soil. Its guidance package was recovered and reverse engineered - the crash was later determined to be deliberate. China now had he ability to accurately hit targets to within 500 feet.
Clinton went on to sell them even more military secrets, secrets which everyone seems to have forgotten - among the how to make silent submarine props, giving them a boost ; most egregious was the free hand over of a miniature klystron switch used to ignite a thermonuclear missile warhead.
China now had not only the guidance to hit targets accurately, but the tech to make thermonuclear warheads that could be MIRVed. Previously, China’s missile accuracy was withing 1/2 mile of target, and had no missile capable of lofting the weight of a thermonuclear warhead, let alone multiple ones.
A few other ‘improvements’ and China not only had ICBMS on par with the US, but capable of hitting anywhere in the Continental US. And now they are on their way to producing more warheads than the US and Russia combined, mostly for their 300 fully MIRVed DF-21s with 10 warheads each (100 road mobile and 200 silo based).