Clever Chinese Selling 'Merica Military Dud Parts

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18155293

China fake parts 'used in US military equipment'

Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee has reported.

A year-long probe found 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft, the Senate Armed Services Committee found.

More than 70% of an estimated one million suspect parts were traced back to China, the report said.

It blamed weaknesses in the US supply chain, and China's failure to curb the counterfeit market.

The failure of a key part could pose safety and national security risks and lead to higher costs for the Pentagon, the committee said.

(continued, that committee is clued up or what?)

[Robert_S]

Someone want to say again how the US doesn't need a manufacturing sector?

[Svartalf]

Somebody wants to remind the people in procurement that they could get hanged in public places at Hallowe'en to provide decoration?

[Clinton Huxley]

Don't worry, it's not so bad. They are gong to be selling us some fake nuclear reactors soon...

[Svartalf]

Which is why you morons ought to buy Areva instead of shopping to Chernobyl class stuff.

[Clinton Huxley]

Which is why you morons ought to buy Areva instead of shopping to Chernobyl class stuff.

Areva are pulling out, is what I heard. Theres only the Japanese, Russians and Chinese left to buy new reactors from


We invented the bloody things and now we have to get foreigners to build 'em. 100 years of feckless morons in charge will do that to a country.

[FBM]

Well, now, no need for all the gloom and doom. I hear the North Koreans will be ready to market their nuclear wares globally soon.

[Clinton Huxley]

Well, now, no need for all the gloom and doom. I hear the North Koreans will be ready to market their nuclear wares globally soon.

I hear they do very quick delivery.

[FBM]

They don't offer much of a warranty, but they do give great discounts for repeat business.

[Thinking Aloud]

Well, now, no need for all the gloom and doom. I hear the North Koreans will be ready to market their nuclear wars globally soon.

fxd

[FBM]

Well, there is that, too... Seems that they're doing market research as we speak...

[Hermit]

Someone want to say again how the US doesn't need a manufacturing sector?

Hey, those components are not so much counterfeit or faked as they are copied. There is no reason to presume that they are of inferior quality. They'd definitely be cheaper than the originals, though. Ah, the virtues of private enterprise at work. Saving money.

As for the US military exposing itself to a weakness by relying on foreign products for its tools of destruction, I don't think so. Nothing stops them from buying the original components, should the need arise. Of course I'm assuming here that they are made in the USA, or at least in a country that is one of its reliable vassals.

[Clinton Huxley]

Someone want to say again how the US doesn't need a manufacturing sector?

Hey, those components are not so much counterfeit or faked as they are copied. There is no reason to presume that they are of inferior quality. They'd definitely be cheaper than the originals, though. Ah, the virtues of private enterprise at work. Saving money.

As for the US military exposing itself to a weakness by relying on foreign products for its tools of destruction, I don't think so. Nothing stops them from buying the original components, should the need arise. Of course I'm assuming here that they are made in the USA, or at least in a country that is one of its reliable vassals.

I'm sure there are plenty of electronic components that are only available from foreign companies.

[Svartalf]

Which is why you morons ought to buy Areva instead of shopping to Chernobyl class stuff.

Areva are pulling out, is what I heard. Theres only the Japanese, Russians and Chinese left to buy new reactors from


We invented the bloody things and now we have to get foreigners to build 'em. 100 years of feckless morons in charge will do that to a country.

more like 330 years.

[Svartalf]

Someone want to say again how the US doesn't need a manufacturing sector?

Hey, those components are not so much counterfeit or faked as they are copied. There is no reason to presume that they are of inferior quality. They'd definitely be cheaper than the originals, though. Ah, the virtues of private enterprise at work. Saving money.

As for the US military exposing itself to a weakness by relying on foreign products for its tools of destruction, I don't think so. Nothing stops them from buying the original components, should the need arise. Of course I'm assuming here that they are made in the USA, or at least in a country that is one of its reliable vassals.

It's not so much that they are copied, it's that they are copied on the cheap using substandard materials, processes and facilities, resulting in an ungodly amount of faulty pieces that are not quality tested before being sold...

It's like 'fake' brand clothes and accessories... you have to know where you can find stuff that is the same as the original, except the brand owner did not get his cut, and where what you get is crap that won't last a day.