US Charged a PRC National with Smuggling Carbon Fiber for PLAAF

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(1) Vladimir Fedorov, New Sino-US spy scandal. Voice of Russia, Sept 27, 2012.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_09_27/New-Sino-US-spy-scandal/

Note: The analysis quotes Vladimir Yevseev as saying, "China managed to make copies of all types of the Russian ground forces’ weapons. Now it is working on a domestic version of the portable surface-to-air missile complex Stinger. China has managed to make a copy of the long-range cruise missile X55 and the Topol missile complex."
(a) FIM-92 Stinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger
(a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM); In service 1981-present; Manufacturer  Raytheon)

, where the "F" stands for "Individual or Infantry" as "launch environment." See missile designation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_designation
(b)
(i) For X-55, see
Kh-55 (missile family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-55_(missile_family)
(Russian: X-55; Type  Air-launched strategic cruise missile; In service  1984-current; Used by  Russia, China, Iran)
(ii) Romanization of Russian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
(section 2 Transliteration table: There are several ways to Romanize the Russian letter "x", including "x" and "kh")
(c) Topol (Russian for "white poplar") is ICBM.
(d) For news report, see the second half of (2)(b) below.


(2)
(a) 美国华裔工程师向中国泄密被定罪. BBC Chinese, Sept 26, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _china_spying.shtml
(b) Christie Smythe, Ex-L-3 Worker Found Guilty of Sending Weapons Secrets to China. Bloomberg, Sept 27, 2012.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/b ... Weapons-3897630.php

Note: L-3 Communications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-3_Communications
(headquarters Manhattan; "L-3 (named for Frank Lanza, Robert LaPenta, and Lehman Brothers) formed in 1997 from the purchase of ten former Lockheed Corporation business units when Lockheed merged in 1996 with Martin Marietta. The new Lockheed Martin was uninterested in owning these ten units")


(3) Jane Perlez, China Launches Carrier, but Experts Doubt Its Worth. New York Times, Sept 26, 2012
("China does not have planes capable of landing on the carrier * * * Up to now, Chinese pilots have been limited to practicing simulated carrier landings on concrete strips on land in Chinese J-8 aircraft based on Soviet-made MIG-23s produced about 25 years ago")

My comment:
(a) There is noneed to read the rest of teh report.
(b) In case you do, the report "YOU Ji, a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore." That is 由冀.