What we don’t know is WHO would hack the Chicoms?
It couldn’t have been our guys; what do we want our own “secrets” back for?
The Chicoms know all about our defense technology and have started building it long before our own military has a clue, I suspect.
Hmmmmm - maybe our military got curious, and the only way to find out what’s on the planning table is get it via China?
Talked to a welder at Bath Iron Works once, and he told me that they all know that the Chicoms get the plans for the “secret” new destroyers before they do - but it don’t matter none because if they build the ships according to the plans it’ll be junk and might not even be seaworthy.
The renown Bath Shipwrights just re design and build the boat the way they know it should be done as they go along, and the naval architects in the top offices wisely shut up and look the other way, then take credit for the superior ships that they know will sail out of Maine rather in spite of them.
The Chinese, they say, are brilliant, but not so much in the realm of innovation and improvisation.
That takes freedom, folks - and you can’t hack that.
Bath built is best built.