Pure genius: have your potential enemy manufacture your weapon system components

[midnight rambler]

Then expect them to help when you have problems. lol

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/14/senators-want-china-assist-probe-counterfeit-weapo/

[Horn]

“If the electronic parts that go into our weapons systems are counterfeited, there’s every possibility that those counterfeits could cripple our ability to have those systems work in the fashion for which they were designed,” he said. “So there’s a certain amount at stake here,

though we forgot to bring it up in the original board meeting "

[Dogman]

Sometimes it maybe wise to see why and how the low bid won the contract.

[Nomoss]

Thanks that a good one.
Where did ALL the jobs go?

[Book]

Mr. Levin (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/carl-levin/) said counterfeit parts that have “infiltrated” the defense supply chain include microprocessors bought by the Air Force for F-15 operational flight-control computers. Counterfeit microcircuits also were found on hardware of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency.Pentagon purchase them from the Kosher Kombat Korporation in Tel Aviv?

::)

[gunDriller]

Then expect them to help when you have problems. lol

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/14/senators-want-china-assist-probe-counterfeit-weapo/

this was part of the plot of Fair Game, a semi-documentary about Valerie Plame (whose kind of a babe !)

real well played by Sean Penn & Naomi Watts.