Chinese military sources revealed they are now fielding large numbers
of neutron bombs. Moreover, Chinese officials implied they would use
nuclear weapons, if need be, to take the island nation of Taiwan. No
super-power has openly threatened first-use of nuclear weapons since
President John Kennedy faced the Soviet Union over Cuba in 1962.
In response, the Clinton administration opened the way to transfer
advanced electronics from the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon to the People’s
Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The Clinton offer to upgrade Chinese
air force fighters includes avionics, computers, heads-up displays,
secure communications, electronic counter-measures, night vision
equipment and integrated fire control systems.
A Capitol hill defense analyst, who is also a current F-18 Hornet
pilot, noted that the Chinese air force Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker would be
the most likely candidate to receive advanced avionics from the Eagle
and Falcon. China currently flies 50 Flankers purchased from Russia and
has a license from Sukhoi to build 400 more over the next two years at
the Nanchang fighter
assembly plant.
“What they are creating is a Red-strike Eagle,” stated the Hornet
pilot. “The Chinese Flankers are currently equipped with ‘steam gauges’
in comparison to the state-of-the-art glass cockpit technology up for
sale.”
The planned transfer would improve the PLAAF Flankers that are
already equipped with the deadly AA-11 Archer missile system. The
Russian-built AA-11 missile is capable of outperforming the
current U.S. Sidewinder missile in air combat. The Archer is reported to
be targeted by a helmet sight, allowing Chinese pilots to shoot at U.S.
planes simply by looking at them.
It is known that China has attempted to upgrade the AA-11 missile
using stolen U.S. technology. The AA-11 Archer played a significant role
in the Cox Report. According to the report, in 1996, Hong Kong customs
officials removed a fully operational AA-11 from the cargo hold of a
Chinese-owned airliner stuffed with paying passengers.
What the Cox Report did not relay to the American public was that the
missile was in a box mislabeled as “Machine Parts.” What the Cox Report
withheld was that the airliner was owned
jointly by the Chinese government and Clinton buddy-billionaire, Moctar
Riady. What the Cox Report did not release was the Chinese missile was
bound for Israel and was to be upgraded with
stolen U.S. Sidewinder technology.
This is not the first time that U.S. defense sources have accused
Israeli aerospace companies of passing U.S. technology to China. As
early as 1989, President Bush’s Secretary of Defense, William Cheney,
accused Israel of passing stolen Patriot technology to China. China has
since upgraded their
HY-100 surface to air missile with the Patriot electronics obtained from
Israel and espionage against America.
Military analysts are concerned that an upgraded Chinese Flanker
would fit nicely in with the PLAAF air defense system supplied by U.S.
aerospace companies. The PLAAF air defense system
currently has a difficult time communicating with the Russian-built
aircraft. The addition of U.S. built avionics and communications would
plug the advanced SU-27s directly into the network of American super
computers, radars and fiber-optic communications.
The trouble of integrating U.S. and Russian equipment has previously
frustrated the Chinese military with predictable results. For example,
the current Chinese navy C4 (communications, computers, command and
control) system is based on stolen U.S. and French technology. The
Chinese navy, ever anxious to snatch a bargain, also recently purchased
two Russian-made destroyers, armed with the advanced “Sunburn”
super-sonic cruise missile.
The Russian vessels, however, are equipped with the “First Captain”
fire control system which cannot communicate with the People’s
Liberation Navy (PLN) western-built C4 system. The Russian built ships
have been
forced to operate virtually alone — lest they target their advanced
missiles on fellow PLN vessels by mistake.
The proposed transfer of U.S. military avionics to China is also
reported to be supported by Lockheed and Boeing. Lockheed, builder of
the F-16 Falcon, is gearing up to manufacture the
F-22 Raptor to replace the USAF F-15 Eagle. The U.S. Air Force is
scheduled to purchase about 400 F-22 fighters. Each Raptor is reported
to cost over $100 million.
Boeing, the maker of the F-15 Eagle, is hoping to win the new Joint
Strike Fighter (JSF) contract which could lead to a significant purchase
of over 1,000 fighter planes.
One source inside Capitol hill said that the two U.S. aerospace
companies, faced with low profits from Eagle and Falcon sales, fear cuts
in the F-22 and JSF projects. They are “growing their own threat to
justify removing price and quantity caps on the F-22 and JSF.”
Furthermore, Boeing and Lockheed are now reported to be considering
the selection of the SU-27 Flanker ejection seat for both the F-22 and
JSF fighters. The joint move, according to inside sources, is being made
to satisfy a Clinton supporter who will profit from the deal.
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that the Russian arms
maker, Zvezda, is now openly offering the K-36 ejection seat for the
advanced U.S. fighter projects. The Zvezda K-36 equips
Russian and Chinese fighters such as the SU-27 and MiG-29 Fulcrum.
Zvezda, known to sell missiles to Algeria and India, is also working
with Boeing to obtain a U.S. Navy super-sonic target missile contract.
The Zvezda-Navy missile deal is reported to have a built in 28 percent
kickback for the Russian generals.
Typically, Zvezda is heavily involved with an arms dealer and a known
Clinton backer. The Russian maker Zvezda-Strela is backed by Gore
supporters, Cassidy Associates and IBP International.
Cassidy Associates is a Washington, D.C., based lobby firm that has made
hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to the
Clinton/Gore campaign. According to FEC records, Cassidy
Associates made over 2,500 political contributions between 1991 and
1998.
Cassidy Associates was also linked to the Ron Brown trade missions.
Cassidy Associates sent Maely Tom, a radical-leftist and DNC donor, to
the Far East on a Brown trade mission to Indonesia. The same mission
included Charlie Trie, Pauline Kanchanalak and Nora Lum. Lum has already
been convicted of illegal campaign contributions.
The other Zvezda supporter is IBP International, a firm based in
London and McClean, Va., run by Gore-backer Judith De Paul. Ms. De Paul
has refused to be interviewed.
IBP successfully lobbied NASA to select the Russian Tu-144 and
Boeing/Douglas for high-speed test flights. IBP also lobbied
unsuccessfully for the Zvezda K-36 ejection seat for NASA T-38
Astronaut trainer jets.
According to Aviation Week, IBP International is reported to have
already leased facilities to install the Zvezda K-36 ejection seat for
the F-22 project. Western seat makers, such as Martin-Baker, are openly
complaining they are being shut out by the “political” process even
before the selection has been made.
Consider the actions of U.S., Israeli, and Russian weapons makers.
These actions seem to fly into the face of their own national security.
Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi cut the SU-27 Flanker deal with China and
then told Boris Yeltsin. The upgraded Flankers pose a significant threat
to the declining
Russian Air Force. However, without the Chinese sale, Sukhoi would have
had to close its doors forever.
Israeli missile makers passed missile technology to China while China
equipped Syria, Iraq, Iran and Lybia with missiles. The threat from
Chinese-made missiles could fall from the sky at any moment on Israel.
This is bad; however, without a threat there would then be no domestic
pressure to continue the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in support of
new Israeli weapons such as the Arrow interceptor project.
The U.S. selects a Russian firm that equips the SU-27 Flanker to
build seats for its own most advanced fighter jet. The seemingly crazy
act, however, keeps the Russian missile maker alive to sell even more
advanced missiles to Third World countries. This, in turn, justifies
more defense sales to both our allies and to ourselves, including more
advanced (and more expensive) fighter jets.
Consider the actions of U.S., Chinese, Israeli, and Russian weapons
makers, faced with declining sales due to the sudden break out of peace.
No more three piece suits, no more foreign luxury autos and no more
Swiss bank accounts.
President Eisenhower coined the phrase “military-industrial complex”
in a speech warning of profiteering in the arms industry. Eisenhower was
personally aware that advanced U.S. technology had assisted Nazi Germany
and Imperial Japan wage the Second World War. He knew many who paid for
those short-sighted sales with their lives.
The ultimate dream for an arms dealer is to sell to both sides. The
international arms trade is not carried out in the interest of global
peace. These sales do not help the citizens in Russia, China, Israel,
Taiwan or America. As President Eisenhower warned at the start of the
first nuclear arms race, such games, when played with modern weapons,
will bring a third and final war.
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