Snowden says China stole F-35 JSF secret design information

Posted on 18 Jan 2015 by Tim Brown

Documents recently disclosed by former US intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, showed that Chinese cyber spies stole 'huge volumes' of sensitive military information relating to the F-35 joint strike fighter aircraft.

The stolen information includes details of the fighter’s radar systems, engine schematics, methods for cooling exhaust gas and “aft deck heating contour maps”. German magazine Der Spiegel has published new disclosures of signals intelligence collected by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and its “Five Eyes” partners, including the Australian Signals Directorate. The…

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