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[Armand2REP]

P&W pays $75m fine for exporting control software for Z-10

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., a Canadian subsidiary of Connecticut-based defense contractor United Technologies, has pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and has settled with the U.S. government for $75 million.

The company admitted June 28 to making false statements in connection with its illegal export to China of U.S. software used in the development of China's military attack helicopter, the Z-10.

"We accept responsibility for these past violations and we deeply regret they occurred," United Technologies CEO Louis Chenevert said in a statement. "As a supplier of controlled products and technologies to the Department of Defense and other domestic and international customers, we are committed to conducting business in full compliance with all export laws and regulations."

Of the settlement money, roughly $20 million will be paid to the Justice Department, with the remaining $55 million going to the State Department. According to the Justice Department, up to $20 million of the payment could be suspended if United Technologies uses it for remedial compliance measures.

"This global settlement will ensure immediate, comprehensive and effective remedial action across the company's many operating units and subsidiaries," said Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. "It also sends a clear message: Those who willfully violate U.S. arms export control laws will be pursued and punished."

The United States has prohibited export of all U.S. defense articles to China as a result of the Chinese military's action to suppress public protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

In the meantime, China began building an attack helicopter under the guise of a civilian helicopter program so that it could gain assistance from Western suppliers, according the Justice Department.

Pratt & Whitney decided on its own that it could sell engines for the Chinese Z-10 program without an export license because they were identical to engines the company was already supplying China for a commercial helicopter.

However, engine software, built by another United Technologies subsidiary named Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., had been modified for a military application and therefore was considered a defense article, requiring an export license.

However, Pratt & Whitney decided to export the software to China without a license anyway.

According to court documents, the company knew in 2000 that the Z-10 program's aim was to develop an attack helicopter and that supplying it with U.S. parts would be illegal. Pratt & Whitney failed to notify its parent company — United Technologies — about the attack helicopter program, according to the Justice Department.

The company's hope was that work on the attack helicopter would "open the door to a far more lucrative civilian helicopter market in China," the Justice Department said.

When an investigation was opened in 2006, the company admitted to knowing about the military helicopter program in 2003 or 2004, not in 2000 when it had first become aware.

United Technologies Fined $75 Million for Military Exports to China | Defense News | defensenews.com

 

[J20!]

Drones to conduct nation's sea surveys

China's coastal provinces will deploy unmanned aircraft to carry out marine surveillance, with trial operations expected to wrap up successfully by the end of this month. Maritime experts said the new technology will help monitor pollution and protect resources along the coast.

The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced Monday that 11 coastal provinces will each set up a strategic airbase for unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Each airbase will be equipped with at least one drone for maritime surveillance, the maritime authority said.

It is a first for China's maritime surveillance, said Yu Qingsong, the coastal division director of the SOA.

"Coastal development activities are increasingly important for China's economic growth, and the demand for sophisticated maritime surveillance has grown," Yu said.

"We adopted satellite and wave estimation technologies in the early 1990s. The new UAVs will help step up our monitoring efforts." He added the UAVs can monitor coastal activity, including land reclamation and off-shore drilling.

Real-time data fed from UAVs is more accurate. UAVs can also be deployed in adverse weather conditions and cover much larger areas than wave stimulation machines, Yu said.

The Liaoning provincial marine patrol center launched the pilot UAV program late last year, mainly to monitor the coastal areas of Dalian, Jinzhou and Panjin, covering an area of 980 square kilometers.

Jiangsu Province also launched its first UAV monitoring test on January 8 this year. China has the world's 11th longest coastline of 14,500 kilometers, according to the SOA.

Scientists can control the UAVs remotely and direct them to designated areas for data collection.

The photos and data, including temperatures and water levels, will then be observed and analyzed at laboratories to determine if there has been any illegal sand dredging or land reclamation activities along the coast.

Lin Minsen, a professor at the Shanghai Maritime University who specializes in coastal surveillance technology, told the Global Times that UAVs had been used in China's mapping in previous decades.

"The country's drone technology is very mature and the high definition photographs recorded from these UAVs are valuable data for maritime monitoring," he said.

The SOA will hold a series of evaluation meetings of the UAV test in Jiangsu by the end of August and the airbases in the 11 provinces will be set up early next year, it said.

 

[Known_Unknown]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Maybe we should follow the same nuke policy that Pak has with respect to India in relation with China. If we can't match them missile for missile, tank for tank or jet for jet, we should build one of the largest nuke arsenals in the world both in terms of variety (from tactical nukes to megaton nukes) and delivery systems to deter any conventional aggression.

Once they know that India has a China specific "offensive nuke doctrine", then they won't dare to launch any type of attack lest Mutually Assured Destruction become a reality.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Maybe we should follow the same nuke policy that Pak has with respect to India in relation with China. If we can't match them missile for missile, tank for tank or jet for jet, we should build one of the largest nuke arsenals in the world both in terms of variety (from tactical nukes to megaton nukes) and delivery systems to deter any conventional aggression.

Once they know that India has a China specific "offensive nuke doctrine", then they won't dare to launch any type of attack lest Mutually Assured Destruction become a reality.

India's nuclear and missile program is 100 percent china specific in reality using nukes against pakistan
That we have planned is overkill they are all for China. We don't need SLBM or MIRV for pakistan.

 

[Tolaha]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

I think we should follow China's nuke policies and not Pakistan's! That would require India to distribute nukes like chocolates to China's neighbours. And I dont even have the slightest doubt as to whether India would do something like that!

 

[hit&run]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

didnt get what is going on in this pic

Low head position with bent knees trying to push blood towards the brain. First aid hypoxia/anoxia or Hypotension.

Second picture is pulse oxymetry use to find out oxygen saturation in body and pulse rate. Based on principle of Photoplethysmography. Ordinary probe used in most of the hospitals in India and InA MC.

 

[Armand2REP]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

really man pls don't consider your enemy so lightly

do you know china india ratio ??

Technology advantage of the Rafale will help shift the balance of power.

 

[tony4562]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Technology advantage of the Rafale will help shift the balance of power.

China has two 5th generation fighter projects, france has none, instead france has 10 million immigrants who could turn amok any time. Rafale itself is about 20 years behind F22/F35. Even if it were a wunder weapon you make it out to be (which it isn't), it is not gonna tip any balance with a country that will overtake US as world's largest economy in about 5 years.

OK, China is still way behind US in technologies, but so is everybody else, but lowly latin french are just a bunch of have-beens or rather never-was.

Here is something for you french jokes

 

[Bheeshma]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

China has nothing in technology comparable to Rafale.The Joke they are passing out as fifthe gen is simply old 70's/80's tech bought from ukrain, france and russia under the fancy cover of J-20/21. The so called Aegis class joke Type-052C/D/E don't even come close to the Horizon class destroyer or even the FREMM. Chinese technology is such a joke that only the most desperate nations in sub-saharan africa or pakistan buy weapons from them.

 

[no smoking]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

China has nothing in technology comparable to Rafale.The Joke they are passing out as fifthe gen is simply old 70's/80's tech bought from ukrain, france and russia under the fancy cover of J-20/21. The so called Aegis class joke Type-052C/D/E don't even come close to the Horizon class destroyer or even the FREMM. Chinese technology is such a joke that only the most desperate nations in sub-saharan africa or pakistan buy weapons from them.

Well said!
Please call pentagon and indian defence department, tell them to stop the nonsense of "Chinese threat"!

 

[Armand2REP]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

China has two 5th generation fighter projects, france has none, instead france has 10 million immigrants who could turn amok any time. Rafale itself is about 20 years behind F22/F35. Even if it were a wunder weapon you make it out to be (which it isn't), it is not gonna tip any balance with a country that will overtake US as world's largest economy in about 5 years.

Your 5th gen projects are laughable when you don't have advanced avionics and engines to put in them. China doesn't have many immigrants, but it is one of the most unstable countries in the world with nearly half a million civil disturbances a year with 1/3rd of its land mass itching for independence. Rafale avionics are 5th generation with a 4.5gen airframe... it is a true 21st century fighter. Chinese economy is in free fall and you're talking about overtaking a still growing US economy...

OK, China is still way behind US in technologies, but so is everybody else, but lowly latin french are just a bunch of have-beens or rather never-was.

OK, China is still way behind France which is why the beg us to sell them weapons.

 

[J20!]

China launches another 2 navigation system satellites - Xinhua | English.news.cn
China launches another 2 navigation system satellites
English.news.cn 2012-09-19 11:05:00

XICHANG, Sichuan, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched another two satellites into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 3:10 a.m. Beijing time on Wednesday.

They were the 14th and 15th satellites for the Beidou, or Compass, system. The satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, were boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.

Since it started to provide services on a trial basis on Dec. 27, 2011, the Beidou system has been stable and its services have been increased and improved, said a spokesman for the China Satellite Navigation Office.

The system has been used in transportation, weather forecasting, marine fisheries, forestry, telecommunications, hydrological monitoring and mapping, according to the spokesman.

China started to build up its own satellite navigation system to break its dependence on the U.S. Global Positioning System in 2000.

Between October 2000 and May 2003, the country set up a regional satellite navigation system after launching three Beidou geostationary satellites.

Beidou-1 can not meet growing demand, so China decided to set up a more functional Beidou-2 regional and global navigation system, Qi Faren, former chief designer for Shenzhou spaceships, said in an interview in 2011.

From April 2007 to April this year, China launched another 13 orbiters to form its Beidou-2 system, which will eventually consist of 35 satellites.

Three Beidou satellites were sent into space early this year. The 11th satellite was boosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket on Feb. 25, while the 12th and 13th were sent by a Long March-3B carrier on April 30.

The network will provide satellite navigation, time and short message services for Asia-Pacific regions within 2012 and global services by 2020.

 

[Rangefinder]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

These are the useless Su-27's and Su-30MKK. Hardly a match for MKI.Once the Rafale comes in the chinese will be shitting bricks.

That is, untill they bring their J-11Bs, J-15s, J-10Bs, J-16s, J-20s, and J-31s. Rafales won't be coming until those fighters that I mentioned arrive first.

 

[Rangefinder]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Your 5th gen projects are laughable when you don't have advanced avionics and engines to put in them. China doesn't have many immigrants, but it is one of the most unstable countries in the world with nearly half a million civil disturbances a year with 1/3rd of its land mass itching for independence. Rafale avionics are 5th generation with a 4.5gen airframe... it is a true 21st century fighter. Chinese economy is in free fall and you're talking about overtaking a still growing US economy...



OK, China is still way behind France which is why the beg us to sell them weapons.

Oh dear, seems like the Chinese secrecy campaign has been effective in making the enemy underestimate them.

The Chinese have produced 5th generation avionics and already tested them aboard the J-10B. As far as I know, China has been playing with "5th generation technology" (i.e. AESA, etc) long before Europe or even Russia. For example, they already built various AESA radars for installation on their J-11B/15/16, J-10B fighters as well as proven ones in their AWACS (I'm counting at least four types of AESA radar). The J-20 has incorporate EODAS, being the second fighter after the F-35 to do so. The J-10B was used to test some of these. Yes, you heard me, the J-10B is a 4.5 generation fighter fitted with 5th generation avionics.

The F-22's radar is actually SMALLER than the J-20's radar, according to an employee from CAC. The J-20's engines, canards, will provide it with a higher thrust to weight ratio than any other 5th generation fighter, and thus greater maneuverability.

Now, that being said, the Rafale's upgrades are consistent with Chinese 4.5 generation jets like J-11B, J-15, J-16, and J-10B. They all have stuff like AESA, RAM, composites, MAWS, IRST, and to some level of next generation weaponry. However comparing Rafale with 5th gen fighters like J-20 and J-21 is utterly laughable.

 

[Rangefinder]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Technology advantage of the Rafale will help shift the balance of power.

Until the J-10B from PAF comes in.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Re: Chinese fighter jets manoeuvre close to Indian border

Till date none of this claims are backed with solid evidence only garbage talks and Photoshops from Chinase fourms..

Can you provide some evidence, You seem to have confidence in your words..

1.The Chinese have produced 5th generation avionics and already tested them aboard the J-10B. As far as I know, China has been playing with "5th generation technology" (i.e. AESA, etc) long before Europe or even Russia.


2.For example, they already built various AESA radars for installation on their J-11B/15/16, J-10B fighters as well as proven ones in their AWACS (I'm counting at least four types of AESA radar).


3.The J-20 has incorporate EODAS, being the second fighter after the F-35 to do so. The J-10B was used to test some of these. Yes, you heard me, the J-10B is a 4.5 generation fighter fitted with 5th generation avionics.


4.The F-22's radar is actually SMALLER than the J-20's radar, according to an employee from CAC. The J-20's engines, canards, will provide it with a higher thrust to weight ratio than any other 5th generation fighter, and thus greater maneuverability.


5.Now, that being said, the Rafale's upgrades are consistent with Chinese 4.5 generation jets like J-11B, J-15, J-16, and J-10B. They all have stuff like AESA, RAM, composites, MAWS, IRST, and to some level of next generation weaponry. However comparing Rafale with 5th gen fighters like J-20 and J-21 is utterly laughable.

 

[arya]

@kunal :: dont you think at least they are moving what about us ??

what our thinktank and MOD doing

 

[Kunal Biswas]

That is a question which Answer is very simple and clear to all..

India is too working but unlike China our Media work exactly and opposite of China, I hear lots of criticism of Indian product inside India, But not a single from Chinese source but outside China..

Indian Gov is not very much committed in National Defense Industry despite that there are things going just well, If you keep tracks of things going..

 

[AprilLyrics]

Till date none of this claims are backed with solid evidence only garbage talks and Photoshops from Chinase fourms..

Can you provide some evidence, You seem to have confidence in your words..

no apparently evidence,only rumors and CG works,fragment of text,or some blurry photos....
//
oh here i forgot another rumor.Y20 is going to be test...

 

[nefory]

no apparently evidence,only rumors and CG works,fragment of text,or some blurry photos....
//
oh here i forgot another rumor.Y20 is going to be test...

More rumors. J20 and the so called J31 are not the only two stealthy thing China is developing. Since not many people care so I won't explain what exactly they are. And PLAN is actually planing more than 3 ACs, and since Chinese official explained they had no intention for an arm race with India, no need to mention the exact numbers that were being discussed. And the 6th gen fighter project (pre-develop stage) started since 2007 right after J20 project was launched. Again, no evidence, at all.