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Subject: A Chinese Weapon You Rarely Hear About
SYSOP    3/28/2015 6:01:35 AM
 
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keffler25       3/28/2015 12:37:38 PM
How STUPID can you be?
 
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Heorot       3/28/2015 3:32:34 PM
A few years ago, when 1 terabyte hard drives were first being marketed at a very high price it was discovered that a component made in China for the Taiwanese manufacturer contained a modification that would allow the drive to be remotely read. It was assumed that, given the high price, most buyers would be the US government or major businesses.
 
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Daryus       3/29/2015 7:39:02 AM
For a Hellfire missile costing $55,000, with a  warhead of 9 kg, that's +- $6,100 per kilogram.
 
Comparing it to a gun shell... How much one cost? $1.000 or less? For 15kg of HE? It's a huge cost saving. 
 
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Daryus       3/29/2015 7:39:58 AM
Oooooops, wrong thread, smsmsmsmsmsm...
 
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Gerry       3/29/2015 10:14:40 PM
I don't know. During the 1970's some of the components in our satellite tracking facilities were made in East Germany. I'm sure the US must be doing the same in reverse. Its business as usual.
 
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karlmaier       3/30/2015 12:12:13 AM
The question is can China do any better than the Soviet Union did with the complete technical data of the west that they had? China is a communist dictatorship nearly identical to the Soviet Union, they don't have the free markets whose "Feedback of Competition" forces continuous improvements in Quality, Service, and Price. This means they will always be playing catch up, without ever breaking trail. This is why there are no Intels, Apples, Microsofts, Googles, Amazons, ebays, Samsungs, Sonys, Toyotas, etc... in fact I challenge anyone to name a world renowned Chinese brand name, that isn't out of Taiwan. China lacks any bleeding edge companies and as long as the communist dictatorship is in charge they always will. 
I'm really not that afraid of China, I'm more afraid that the leftists like Obama will set America down the same dead end road.  
 
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Daryus       3/30/2015 9:05:21 AM
Is there really a possibility that China will become a democracy in the next years?
 
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tobiathan       3/31/2015 8:28:24 PM
According to them they already are a "single-party democracy".
 
 America, on the other hand, is a Constitutional Representative Republic.
 
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