Indian in US to be sentenced for selling stealth tech to China

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/Indian-in-US-to-be-sentenced-for-selling-stealth-tech-to-China/Article1-654232.aspx

Weeks after China conducted a flight test of its new J-20 stealth fighter, a US federal court was on Monday set to sentence Indian-American Noshir Gowadia, a former engineer of B-2 stealth bomber, who has been convicted of selling military secrets to Beijing. In August 2010, Mumbai-born Gowadia,
66, was convicted on 14 counts on charges, including conspiracy, communicating national defense, violating the arms export control act and information to aid a foreign nation.

He now faces life sentence.

Between 2003 and 2005 Gowadia made six secret trips into mainland China and exchanged numerous communications to help Chinese defense engineers design a cruise missile that is able to evade air-to-air, heat-seeking missiles, according the federal indictment against him.

According to court papers, Gowadia hid the proceeds from the transactions by directing the payments to secret Swiss bank accounts of foundations he set up in Liechtenstein, the government said in recently filed court documents.

Prosecutors alleged that Gowadia helped design an exhaust nozzle for China that gives off less heat, making it difficult for enemy infrared detectors to track the missile for which he got USD 110,000 over two years.

Gowadia worked for Northrup from 1968 to 1986, during which time he helped develop the B-2 bomber's unique propulsion system.

After his employment with Northrup ended, Gowadia continued his relationship with the US military as a private contractor.

However, following some angry dealings with the Air Force and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1993, Gowadia began to seek and solicit business internationally, the government said.

Honestly, I don't know what to think of this. Other than this guy is bad at business deals, only $110,000 over 2 years?
 
Demon Lord Razgriz said:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Indian-in-US-to-be-sentenced-for-selling-stealth-tech-to-China/Article1-654232.aspx
Gowadia worked for Northrup from 1968 to 1986...
After his employment with Northrup ended...

Honestly, I don't know what to think of this. Other than this guy is bad at business deals, only $110,000 over 2 years?

Well, let's face it, he worked for a minor player in aerospace, some company called "Northrup." Now, if he worked for a *real* company, like, say, Northrop, he might've been able to command the big bucks for his treason.
 
Orionblamblam said:
Well, let's face it, he worked for a minor player in aerospace, some company called "Northrup." Now, if he worked for a *real* company, like, say, Northrop, he might've been able to command the big bucks for his treason.

I think that's just a typo by the news site. <_<
 
Former B-2 engineer sentenced to 32 years for selling secrets to China. Good Morning America tv show on ABC. -SP
 
XB-70 Guy said:
Former B-2 engineer sentenced to 32 years for selling secrets to China. Good Morning America tv show on ABC. -SP

Why doesn't it sound so bad when it's the President that offers to do the same thing? ;D

Or maybe he knows that so much has already been vented out by the Indian guy that there isn't so much left to be discovered?

One thing is for sure: either the B-2's technology, which goes back to the mid-1980s, is already obsolete and therefore why worry about leaks to the East... or it is still very much ahead of all other aircraft, and in that case why offer to sell it? Something does not compute here.
 
Demon Lord Razgriz said:
I think that's just a typo by the news site. <_<
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That's unpossible!
 
Stargazer2006 said:
XB-70 Guy said:
Former B-2 engineer sentenced to 32 years for selling secrets to China. Good Morning America tv show on ABC. -SP

Why doesn't it sound so bad when it's the President that offers to do the same thing? ;D

Or maybe he knows that so much has already been vented out by the Indian guy that there isn't so much left to be discovered?

One thing is for sure: either the B-2's technology, which goes back to the mid-1980s, is already obsolete and therefore why worry about leaks to the East... or it is still very much ahead of all other aircraft, and in that case why offer to sell it? Something does not compute here.

Even if its obsolete, it may still help the Chinese model the B-2 and determine how to find it.
 
Stargazer2006 said:
One thing is for sure: either the B-2's technology, which goes back to the mid-1980s, is already obsolete and therefore why worry about leaks to the East...

Maybe because the possible countermeasures against it? B-2s are supposed to be in service at least next 30 years.
 
chuck4 said:
Even if its obsolete, it may still help the Chinese model the B-2 and determine how to find it.

Thw W-54 nuclear warhead from the Davy Crockett battlefield nuke is also obsolete, but damned if I can persuade the DoD to hand over blueprints.

"obsolete" =/ "declassified." And even if the physics and even the materials used in the B-2 are completely known, the knowledge about *how* those physics and materials were used could be invaluable to anybody willing to just copy notes and save themselves a few billion dollars in research.
 
Thanks Matej and Orionblamblam for the clarification. Indeed I understand that obsolete and declassified are two different things.
 
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