美最新P-8反潜机上竟发现中国伪劣电子零件

美海军及波音公司最近发现最新型P-8 Poseidon 反潜机上冰探测系统（ice detection system ）中硬件有重大缺陷，此电子元件为旧元件的翻新品。同时波音清查同批次零件发现均为翻新的品并仍在P-8装配线上使用。此零件购自次级承包商BAE Systems。并称已掌握证据指出伪劣电子零件来自中国的电子垃圾回收作坊（把中国人当神啊能翻新出军用级电子元件），美议员要求中国驻美大使协助调查中方拒绝。美国会还要开听证会查证此事。

链接：http ://defensetech.org/2011/11/08/counterfeit-parts-found-on-new-p-8-posiedons/

原文如下
Counterfeit Parts Found on P-8 Posiedons

Earlier this year, Boeing and the Navy found that the ice detection system on a brand new P-8 Poseidon was defective. The ice detection system is a critical piece of hardware designed to prevent tragedies by alerting pilots to the presence of ice on an aircraft’s control surfaces. Where did this defective part come from? China. A whole batch of a key piece of the ice detection hardware that was sent to the P-8 production line turned out to be used and worn out parts that were badly refurbished and sold to P-8 subcontractor BAE Systems as a new part, according to Levin. Boeing and BAE first became aware of the problem in 2009, he added.

The fake P-8 parts are just one of many examples of how counterfeit parts — often made from 1980s and 1990s-vintage junk computer parts that are sanded down and remarked in China and then sold back to the U.S. as brand new computer chips for advanced weapons systems. One witness at the hearing just described growing counterfiet semiconductors seeping into critical weapons systems as “ticking time bombs.”

Levin also noted that China feels no need to cooperate in his investigation into the problem, saying that the Chinese ambassador to Washington declined to send a representative to the hearing that has found plenty evidence that the vast majority of counterfeit weapons parts are coming from China.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of a huge problem that I wrote extensively about at Inside the Air Force in early 2009. Oh, and  while the Pentagon and defense industry is working on detecting counterfeit parts the counterfitters are becoming ever more adept at hiding the fact that their parts are fake.


美海军及波音公司最近发现最新型P-8 Poseidon 反潜机上冰探测系统（ice detection system ）中硬件有重大缺陷，此电子元件为旧元件的翻新品。同时波音清查同批次零件发现均为翻新的品并仍在P-8装配线上使用。此零件购自次级承包商BAE Systems。并称已掌握证据指出伪劣电子零件来自中国的电子垃圾回收作坊（把中国人当神啊能翻新出军用级电子元件），美议员要求中国驻美大使协助调查中方拒绝。美国会还要开听证会查证此事。

链接：http ://defensetech.org/2011/11/08/counterfeit-parts-found-on-new-p-8-posiedons/

原文如下
Counterfeit Parts Found on P-8 Posiedons

Earlier this year, Boeing and the Navy found that the ice detection system on a brand new P-8 Poseidon was defective. The ice detection system is a critical piece of hardware designed to prevent tragedies by alerting pilots to the presence of ice on an aircraft’s control surfaces. Where did this defective part come from? China. A whole batch of a key piece of the ice detection hardware that was sent to the P-8 production line turned out to be used and worn out parts that were badly refurbished and sold to P-8 subcontractor BAE Systems as a new part, according to Levin. Boeing and BAE first became aware of the problem in 2009, he added.

The fake P-8 parts are just one of many examples of how counterfeit parts — often made from 1980s and 1990s-vintage junk computer parts that are sanded down and remarked in China and then sold back to the U.S. as brand new computer chips for advanced weapons systems. One witness at the hearing just described growing counterfiet semiconductors seeping into critical weapons systems as “ticking time bombs.”

Levin also noted that China feels no need to cooperate in his investigation into the problem, saying that the Chinese ambassador to Washington declined to send a representative to the hearing that has found plenty evidence that the vast majority of counterfeit weapons parts are coming from China.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of a huge problem that I wrote extensively about at Inside the Air Force in early 2009. Oh, and  while the Pentagon and defense industry is working on detecting counterfeit parts the counterfitters are becoming ever more adept at hiding the fact that their parts are fake.