F-16 Source Code

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:19:03 GMT, Glenfiddich wrote:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:18:29 -0000, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:


"Glenfiddich" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:02:51 GMT, "C.D.Damron" wrote:

"Charles Talleyrand" wrote:
The F-16 is a very popular airplane. I'm just curious who has copies
of
the source code to the plane and it's radar, etc.
Obviously the USAF does, but do the Israeli,
the Belgians, or anyone else?

For some boxes, we did not provide the source code.
This hasn't kept the Israeli's from uncompiling it
and selling the technology to other countries.

The USA is the only country to receive such code from Israel.
Check who owns F-16s - do you seriously imagine that Israel
would sell improved code to an enemy state?

Given that they sold Python AAM's and wanted to sell an
advanced AWACS style capability to China I wouldnt rule
it out.

The Python is an Israeli-developed missile, they have the right
to sell it to any market they're not locked out of.

The AWACS was offered openly, and cancelled at the US' request.
That's wrong?

Now, the subject was F-16 code - how many F-16s does China fly?

Same thing happened with the improved Patriot programming.
Israel had a vital interest in making it work right - and got
enough real-life experience to see what needed fixing

And some sources believe they then sold that know how to China

Some sources will believe anything...

If China got secret US technology, they most likely got it directly
from the US - didn't you follow the news about Chinese activities
inside the USA?
Misdirecting blame is a standard way to deflect attention.
That's been done before - remember how Israeli agent Pollard
was blamed for exposing US agents to the Russians?
And then we heard that Aldrich Ames, the American who wrote
the report blaming Pollard, was the traitor?

http://the-tech.mit.edu/V112/N13/china.13w.html
http://www.aviationnow.com/content/p...10430/aw34.htm

These two tentative reports are years old - and are still unconfirmed.
If there were much truth in them, they'd have been confirmed by now.

The Israelis will sell anything to anybody. They are not "allies" of the
US, they are a money sucking parasite.

Al Minyard