Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China

[asianobserve]

Bryant Jordan
Defensetech
December 24, 2013

Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense official to resign.

The head of defense exports for the Israeli Defense Ministry resigned after a U.S. investigation concluded that technology, including a miniature refrigeration system manufactured by Ricor and used for missiles and in electro-optic equipment, was sent to China, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

Another Israeli news site, Aretz Sheva, reports the U.S. is concerned the technology could ultimately find its way to Iran, which last year sought to buy military equipment from China for its nuclear program.

Ricor, on its company website, identifies a number of defense programs using its miniature cryo-coolers, including UAVs, airborne enhanced vision systems, missile warning systems, hand-held thermal imagers and thermal weapons sights.

The Maariv report identified the Israeli defense official as Meir Shalit, and said he apologized to U.S. officials on a recent visit.

Israel has a long record of getting U.S. military technology to China.

In the early 1990s then-CIA Director James Woolsey told a Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel had been selling U.S. secrets to China for about a decade. More than 12 years ago the U.S. demanded Israel cancel a contract to supply China with Python III missiles, which included technology developed by the U.S. for its Sidewinder missiles, The Associated Press reported in 2002.


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So there's really a good reason for the Americans to spy on its "best friend" in the Middle East...

Anyway, India should be careful when dealing with Israel.

 

[Free Karma]

So now U.S can justify the spying done on Israel!

 

[Deccani]

Does all this to show that Chinese doesn't have any indigenous technology and from back door Chinese are getting NATO technology.

Chinese foreign minister was in Ramallah on 18th December and anyone has to go to Ramallah has to go through Israel as there is no Palestine state .

Palestine News & Info Agency - WAFA - Chinese Foreign Minister Visits Ramallah

 

[asianobserve]

So now U.S can justify the spying done on Israel!

Even on its other allies...

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Israel has done this before the whole lavi program was US F-16 technology which was
sold to China.

 

[Deccani]

Israel has done this before the whole lavi program was US F-16 technology which was
sold to China.

wasn't it 1995 , when the American Adm disclose about it .?

 

[SajeevJino]

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This was Posted by Camera in Mp.net

This report is based on Israeli articles that I've read. Somehow, it managed to distort significantly the articles in Hebrew that it quotes:

1/ The technology of the components was not American but Israeli.
2/ The components were not sold to China, but to a French company, which sold them to China.
3/ There was a fault of the official in the MOD who authorized the deal. He authorized it without safeguards that would forbid the reexportation of the components. That's why he resigned.
EDIT:
Another inexactitude in this article: the technology of Python 3 is Israeli and is not derived from the Sidewinder.

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