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Kasz216 on 03 June 2009
mrstickball said:
highwaystar101 said:

 

 

mrstickball said:
highway -

China is not a US ally....By a long shot. It's about the worst country you could sell it to. Selling such plans to OBL wouldn't matter, because terrorists don't have the cash to reverse-engineer such a plane, and use it. China does.

Ah ok the. I thought China had some kind of alliance based on trade with the USA. But looked it up, it doesn't. Must have dreamed it lol.

China would never attack the USA in any case. They would immediately regret it, they would lose much of their industry overnight and have half the world at war with them. Having the plans for one plane will not give them any advantages in fighting the best and largest funded military in the world.

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actually I just had a thought, kind of like insurance for the sale of your technology. If the military developed a system that could detect the stealth technology in the B2 stealth planes, so they could be detected with ease by the USA. Then sell the secrets ,make the money but not be at a disadvantage. It could not be hard.

I am not arguing that China would attack the US. It would indeed be foolish.

My issue is that the balance of power would change. China has been a very aggressive nation since it fell under Communism in the 40s. One of the biggest advantages the US has in the pacific theater is the stealth bomber as a deterrent from Chinese aggression - it would allow us, in the event of war, to cripple China's railway system, which is very critical to their trasportation of war material to the area of battle.

Should China have the ability to detect our bombers, it would be virtually impossible to penetrate Chinese airspace to hamper their war efforts, thus shifting the balance of power in the pacific theater to China.

This would allow them far more leeway in saber ratting with Korea, Japan, Taiwan, or any other problematic country. Not a worthwhile exercise for a measly $50b.

Couldn't we just use Cruise Missles to blow up their railroads?  I mean we use those for everything.  



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Kasz216 on 03 June 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
highwaystar101 said:

China would never attack the USA in any case.

Never?

Maybe not in the next 20, or even 50 years... but never is a long time.

OT: Very bad way to make 50B. If Obama did this, he would get thrown out of office. Worst idea I have heard from a president. In fact, worse than invading Iraq (currently holding the #1 spot :p)

I doubt it’s true though.

What about castrating every male German as punnishment for WW2?

 



NJ5 on 03 June 2009
Kasz216 said:

I'd be less bothered by this if we didn't stop funding all of our kickass jet technology.

Really though... it's not like China having stealth bombers could effect us that badly... I mean the only countries who could have stealth bombers that could bother us are countries in the EU... and they probably have stealth technology already? And we're not likely to go to war with the EU anytime soon anyway?

 

Is 50 billion really anything though considering the trillions in debt we're running up?  Reminds me of the old scene of a guy ordering 15 things off a fast food menu but getting a diet soda.

50 billion is like enough to bail out GM (for now at least). It's a few percent of the debt to China apparently, that's pretty significant.

Anyway, I searched a bit around and the article looks fake. All the places I've seen it posted (blogs and the such) have people doubting its origin, sometimes it's attributed to a journalist who doesn't even seem to exist.

 



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Jackson50 on 03 June 2009
Kasz216 said:Really though... it's not like China having stealth bombers could effect us that badly... I mean the only countries who could have stealth bombers that could bother us are countries in the EU... and they probably have stealth technology already? And we're not likely to go to war with the EU anytime soon anyway?

The US is the only nation that employs the use any form of stealth technology. The EU states could build capable stealth aircraft if they desired, and the Russians are also capable. Well, I suppose this situation will change with the deployment of the F-35. Many nations will then have a stealth aircraft. 

I am highly dubious about the veracity of this information. No credible news source or research institute that I follow has conveyed this information.    



RCTjunkie on 03 June 2009

I don't really like Obama, but I doubt he would be that dumb to follow through.

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akuma587 on 04 June 2009

The internet and even some major news outlets also told me that Obama was really a Muslim.

But in actuality, why the hell not?  We are dead fucking broke (yet the people who complain about this fact the most are the first ones to criticize this).  And its not exactly like this technology is technologically out of reach for other countries.  We'd just be selling them something they could develop on their own without too much trouble if they really wanted it.



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Strategyking92 on 04 June 2009

I think it's going to take america going bankrupt before we become self reliant again.



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That Guy on 06 June 2009

hey, we should make STEALTH MISSLES!

how awesome would that be? a stealth cruise missile that blows up stuff myseriously and they'll never know that its from the US



Avinash_Tyagi on 06 June 2009

This thread is so full of facepalm its not funny If only we could find a way to harness the idiocy as a source of fuel



 

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rocketpig on 06 June 2009

Not to ask a stupid question but since when did the executive office get the power to sell DoD information... or anything, for that matter?




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