You couldn't make it up retired fighter pilots, being paid £250K to teach are future enemies how to kill your colleagues in NATO!!
RAF pilots being paid £250k to train Chinese 'how to shoot down Western aircraft' - Daily Star
UK to change law to stop RAF pilots training Chinese military, says minister | Royal Air Force | The Guardian
How is it not already against a law about TREASON?
Too bad. That’s treason…
Chinese offered the inventor of metal storm $50 million if he would go there and develop the system he refused........
Metal Storm 36 Barrel Prototype-One Million Rounds per Minute Rate of Fire - YouTube
Wow, that metal Storm sounds like electricity jumping off a transformer when fired haha. Simply amazing that many projectiles are fired by computer one projectile at a time that quickly. Thanks for sharing cinders, mind-blown. That has to be the future of upcoming weapons. No brass, no powder, no primers, no headspace to worry about, not anything but tubes and a computer! So many components and materials saved by that technology. Interesting times we live in for sure
Meanwhile BAE supply technicians and weapons for the Saudi Tornadoes to bomb the Yemen with, then the UK sends aid and delivers on UN programmes to help the war torn Yemenis.
The arms trade is a paradox!
As the man said, "it's just business".....
You wouldn't think that the law would need changing because one would assume that it was already covered by the official secrets act.
Keep looking.;)
These are intelligent men, selected from the best at the time, to be our front line fighter pilots.
They clearly still have a lot to offer, but surely not to our future adverseries.
Forgetting about the Official Secrets Act and other serious laws to infringe.........its common sense why you shouldn't be assisting them!!
£250,000 wage a year is nothing compared to the loss of even one of our young, or indeed ANY NATO pilots life in the future as the South China Sea conflict builds, having taught them tactics!!
Can't help thinking someone must have signed this off as OK to do at MOD!!
IMHO we should open the Tower of London!!
Money speaks many languages Gil I bet a top gun fighter pilot in the RAF would not earn $250,000 pound per year as for morals which are questionable perhaps their becoming a pilot should have a life long caveat not to endorse, train or give away any military tactics or secrets ever, if done then life in prison with hard labour or tied to a post in front of a firing squad.
Then again with the Falklands conflict the Iron Lady dipped into NATO stocks for missiles to combat the Argy airforce as the Navy and Army were wanting for a good air defence network so I guess if you hold the strings you can do at will stuff........................!
I hear its not just OUR pilots, Canadian and Aussie pilots were approached too!!
Ah..............yes the dreaded EXOCET. There hangs another tale for another day, too upsetting to start that one off I'm afraid :mad:
We'll leave that one to another generation to debate on Gil.
Looking on the bright side, it could be worse; they could have "peddled their wares" to Vladimir Putin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Definately B&B in the White Tower then!!
Maybe they are teaching the wrong or outdated tactics?
Well, we used to get trainees from worldwide in Officer training, even Russian... When I suggested we were training the enemy I was told to stop talking like that. They'll be teaching correctly and as directed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Singer B
There was an outcry a few years ago when the public found out that the Canadian War College was training Chinese General Officers...and there was another outcry when the public found out that the CF was training Chinese PLA troops to fight in the Canadian Arctic...
Yep... Strange thing about the arctic warfare though, they have severe cold too. I shouldn't think we could teach them much on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Enfield
I have been trying to think of the sort of "job advertisement" that the Chinese might have come up with to tempt "Top-Gun" "exRAF/Western Pilots" to China without making it obvious that they wanted to learn how Nato operate. Apart from the offer of a high salary the pilots must have been told something to convince them. Perhaps China emphasised that they were eager to learn from the best Western pilots or perhaps they emphasised that they were in such fear of their neighbours they needed help to improve their defences?
One has to assume, there was a BIG FAT RECRUITING COMPANY MOGAL who trawled all the relevant Officers Messes for those leaving. You only need one to sign up, and it would get round like wildfire.
Thats how it normally happens I suspect. It would never get into an RAF leavers journal or be that obvious, just something down the lines of a "Foreign Government Needs You" to teach them to fly scenario.
Or as simple as a couple of "Fang Fang" honeypots...
Russ
Probably really cute Chinese girls at pilot bars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
"Loyalty has many meanings, and self-interest is often a skilled interpreter." (John Buchan)
Or going back a little further to John Donne:
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
UK sent RAF pilots to teach Chinese counterparts - YouTubeQuote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Don't look down! :D