The man who sold the B-2 to China? Noshir S. Gowadia

An Indian-born aerospace engineer was sentenced to 32 years in prison last week for selling stealth aircraft and missile secrets to China.

Noshir S. Gowadia received the sentence in U.S. District Court in Honolulu in the latest example of what security specialists say is a Chinese intelligence assault on the United States to gain secrets and technology for Beijing’s large-scale military buildup.

A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

Earlier Chinese spying involved obtaining secrets on every deployed weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the 1990s, a case that was never formally resolved by the FBI ? that of Los Angeles defense contractor Chi Mak, which compromised Navy technology.

Ken Sorensen, assistant U.S. attorney in Hawaii who prosecuted the case, said Gowadia’s 32-year prison term “sends a clear message that the compromise of U.S. classified information involving our most sensitive weapons systems will not only be aggressively pursued by the government, but will be dealt with severely by our court system.”

“The evidence in the case demonstrated that Gowadia, one of the original designers of the B-2 bomber, was first taken by the Chinese to Chengdu, the same location where they just unveiled the J-20 earlier this month,” Mr. Sorenson said, referring to China’s version of the stealth fighter jet.

“Gowadia made six trips to China from August 2003 to October 2005 for the purpose of designing a cruise missile with a reduced infrared signature,” he said.

One of Gowadia’s convictions involved giving the Chinese a PowerPoint file using classified U.S. missile-sensor data to demonstrate how his design would defeat a U.S. air-to-air missile, he said.

Sorenson said evidence showed that by October 2005 the Chinese were at least in the last stage of full-scale testing on Gowadia’s stealthy cruise-missile design. “Cruise missiles can deliver nuclear or conventional payloads, so they are formidable weapons,” he said.

Additionally, Gowadia had disclosed to European entities his calculations of the “lock-on range” for missiles fired against the B-2 bomber.

“Suffice it to say that disclosing a scaled number of where an advanced [infrared] missile will ‘lock on’ to the B-2, arguably our nation’s most critical defense weapons system, is gravely damaging to U.S. national security,” Mr. Sorenson said.

One of the original designers? Aside from this being a disinformation campaign (unlikely, since the man can be verified as jailed for 32 years) this has to be WORSE BY FAR than the Walkers or any other espionage disaster in US history, for not only does it jump Chinese military technology, it may also allow the Chinese to LOCATE AND INTERCEPT US STEALTH AIRCRAFT.

MSM?

HELLO?