Re: OT - You just CAN'T make this kind of stuff up...



witfal wrote:

On 2008-02-26 19:07:56 -0800, "larry moe 'n curly"
<larrymoencurly@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Loral received permission from Clinton (a donation recipient) to share
technology with the Chinese which enabled more accurate targeting of
their ICBMs.

Here's a bunch of articles:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/missile/keystories.htm

The CIA didn't think there was any serious technology transfer.

Interesting how the CIA becomes conveniently and miraculously reliable
when it suits the left's fancy.

Exactly where were they wrong in the Loral case?

But when it comes to what the left finds lacking in foreign policy,
they're suddenly idiots.

The CIA was right about Iraq, wrong about the Soviet Union.

There was probably very, very little technology transfer because China
received satellites in sealed boxes and simply launched them (or tried
to), and about the only time they had a chance to check the insides
was when they searched for debris from a failed launch.

Exactly what technology in the Loral civilian communications
satellites could be adapted to ICBM use? After all there's no
inertial navigation equipment, and GPS has been available to
everybody.

It had to do with guidance systems, if memory serves.

That would be inertial or GPS navigation.

The sealed satellite package doesn't guide the rocket, and the
satellite's guidance system is controlled by the satellite itself,
except for maybe some signals that the rocket sends to it to indicate
when the rocket has finished its job.

So what technology did the Chinese get? AFAIKT, only some help to fix
defects in their rocket.


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