Just Brilliant...

[Pudfark]

Here's a brilliant give away....in every sense of the word.

China Maneuvers for U.S. Defense Contracts

BEIJING—The maker of China's new stealth fighter jet has teamed up with a tiny, unprofitable California company to try to launch bids for U.S. defense contracts, possibly including one to supply Chinese helicopters to replace the aging Marine One fleet used by the president, according to people involved in the partnership.

However, the fact that state-run China Aviation Industry Corp., known as AVIC, is even considering bids for these contracts, which industry insiders expect to be awarded in the next two to three years, reflects the rapid development and lofty ambitions of China's aerospace industry.

AVIC has been in talks for more than a year with California-based U.S. Aerospace Inc. about offering the AC-313—China's largest domestically produced helicopter—as the next generation of Marine One, the people involved in the partnership say.
They say the two companies have also been discussing putting forward AVIC's new L-15 trainer jet as a candidate to replace the U.S. Air Force's fleet of Northrop T-38s, which entered service 50 years ago and on which American fighter pilots learn skills such as how to fly at supersonic speeds.

That contract is expected to be one of the most lucrative military aviation contracts this decade, with the U.S. likely to buy about 400 and other allied countries about 600 more as the jet will become the standard for training pilots to fly the U.S. F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters.
AVIC already supplies civilian aircraft components to U.S. companies, but U.S. officials and lawmakers have expressed concern about U.S. technology being diverted to AVIC's military arm through such cooperation.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02 ... z1D0Z9RagM

[fatman]

Future f-35 pilots are being trained in f-16's right now due to a shortage of trainers and all but dont worry china wont get a look in i dont imagine that the dod would want to be put in the position of being bent over the barrel L/M will get the T-50 contracted might be 10 years it might even beat the tankers now that is a fiasco

[HappyHappy]

We can not purchase them for use by our military.
We can purchase from a NATO country and Japan (and a few others).
We can not purchase parts or finished weapons systems from China.

We can and have purchased Russian and Chinese weapons systems
for use by foreign nationals in Afghanastan and Iraq.

HH

[CUDA]

We can not purchase them for use by our military YET.

HH

fixed it for ya

[nicolas10]

We can purchase from a NATO country and Japan (and a few others). BUT WON'T

It's no big deal as evidenced by the KC-45 program. Even when the foreign product wins the usaf contract, congress will overturn the decision. allowing the chinese wouldn't change a thing.

Nic