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Re:The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its ... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:59PM (#26336679)
> If the US acquired a next-generation Chinese fighter, wouldn't it be handy if someone had the expertise to tell you exactly how its parts were made and machine replicas if needed?

I suppose they could always call the engineers at Boeing or Lockheed who designed it in the first place. Like getting tech support for your Huawei networking equipment, just use the Cisco guide! [0]

[0] https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...

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Re:The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its ... by Bedon292 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @07:38PM (#26337054)
For anyone unaware Lockheed was hacked in 2007 and the hackers got away with technical documentation related to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The hack was attributed to hackers in China. So it is thought that the development of the Chinese J-20 was at least helped along by information from the hack.
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