Pratt & Whitney illegally sold military tech to China

Nah, they're too hard to conquer.

 

Yes.

 

So every Wal-Mart shopper is guilty of conspiring with the enemy?

 

It is astounding how many commie-hating free enterprisers are so darn eager to do business with a Communist nation. Profits over patriotism.

 

It's too bad Bill Clinton isn't the President.

He'd know how to deal with this.

 

Yeah, that'd be great. 'Cept, who's gonna build new jet engines?

 

Where there is demand there will inevitably be supply.

 

Sure. We can get GE or Rolls Royce to make them.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/military-ge-f136-jsf-engine

www.indystar.com/article/20120605/BUSINESS/206050362/Rolls-Royce-must-face-whistle-blower-suit-over-Defense-contracts

 

Yes, I realize GE and Rolls Royce make jet engines. My helicopter uses GE engines and another variant of it uses Rolls Royce engines (I think).

I don't think you guys realize the time and money that goes into aviation research and design.

You don't just call Pratt and Whitney and say, "Hey, we need a new engine for this Black Hawk helicopter by next week." That process would take years, and the companies don't have an infinite stock of engines (with the exception of war zones, where repair facilities may have an extra engine in the corner for emergencies). I think they only barely keep ahead of the production lines.

It's not quite like a 350 small block that's made by 50 different companies.

 

Sorry for the confusion. I was remarking on the most recent corruptions of the other 2 big engine makers. Defense contracting seems to breed a certain disregard for, um, thrift.

 

I like this idea.

Not to defend P&W, but at least they aren't selling the most modern engines (the PT6 dates originally from the 1950s and powered the now-retired T-34C Turbo Mentor trainer for the Navy). Besides, if the Chicoms wanted to reverse-engineer something more modern, we did sell them UH-60 Blackhawks (in the guise of civilian S-70 model) with newer General Electric T700s.

But they shouldn't have broken the law.

 

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