Man charged with attempting to smuggle F-35 blueprints to Iran

H.R.A. · Jan 14, 2014

A man has been charged with attempting to send technical data on the F-35 joint strike fighter to Iran, according to the US Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Mozaffar Khazaee was arrested on January 9 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey following the first flight of a trip to Tehran, Defense News reported.

Khazaee, a naturalized US citizen since 1991, was charged with transporting, transmitting and transferring in interstate or foreign commerce goods obtained by theft, conversion, or fraud. He faces a maximum of 10 years in jail.

Federal agents began an investigation into Khazaee in November after he attempted to send a shipment to the Iranian city of Hamadan from Connecticut, according to the US government affidavit. In the shipment, agents found numerous boxes of documents consisting of sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other proprietary material for the F-35.

The shipments thousands of documents included diagrams and blueprints of the F-35s engine. Some of the information was designated as export-controlled.

The documents included came from a company Khazaee worked for until August, though the affidavit does not identify the employer. It does say he worked on a team that focused on strength and durability evaluations for aspects of military engines.

Though the company was not identified, spokesman for jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, Matthew Bates, told Defense News Pratt is the company referred to as Company A in the affidavit.

Pratt & Whitney has been cooperating fully with the government on this matter and will continue to do so, Bates said. Because the investigation is ongoing, any additional questions about the investigation are better suited for the government to address at the appropriate time.

Property of two other unspecified companies was included in Khazaees shipment. Defense News points out Rolls-Royce, a subcontractor on the F-35s engine program, is based in Indiana, where Khazaee went once leaving Connecticut. The companys US activities are based in Indiana.

A Rolls-Royce spokesman said Khazaee is not a current employee, declining to comment further.

The F-35 Joint Program Office has been alerted to the investigation, and will cooperate fully with legal authorities pursuing the case, Joe DellaVedova, the joint strike fighter programs Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. No additional comment will be made while the investigation is ongoing.

The Pentagons US$392 billion (and counting) F-35 program often called a boondoggle for the soaring costs and increasingly shifting priorities of air power standards is being developed by Lockheed Martin for the US and eight other countries: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Turkey. In addition, Israel and Japan have placed orders for the fighter jet. The program is estimated to now stand at 70 percent over initial cost projections and several years behind schedule.
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Is it true??? hmmm, I think it couldn't be true. F35 is an defeated project. don't you believe? read this article:

OTTAWA The F-35 jet fighter purchase, the most persistent thorn in the federal governments side and the subject of a devastating auditor-generals report last spring, is dead.
Faced with the imminent release of an audit by accountants KPMG that will push the total projected life-cycle costs of the aircraft above $30 billion, the operations committee of the federal Cabinet decided to scrap the controversial sole-source program and go back to the drawing board, a source familiar with the decision said.
This occurred after Chief of the Defence Staff Thomas Lawson, while en route overseas, was called back urgently to appear before the committee, the source said.
The decision is sure to have ripple effects around the world, as any reduction in the number of aircraft on order causes the price to go up for all the other buyers. Canada is one of nine F-35 consortium members, including the United States.

The CF-18s currently flown by the RCAF are at the tail end of their life cycle and are not expected to be operable much beyond 2020 at the outside.
The fighter procurement process has been the responsibility of Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose since last spring, following an audit by Auditor General Michael Ferguson. It is understood that veteran senior bureaucrat Tom Ring, who handled the governments much-praised shipbuilding contract process in the fall of 2011, is now steering the reframed fighter replacement process, from within Public Works.
Last spring, Ferguson ignited a political firestorm when he reported that the top-line cost cited by the Conservatives in the 2011 election campaign $9 billion for 65 planes, or $15 billion including maintenance and other life-cycle costs was $10-billion below the Defence Departments internal estimate.
Even the internal figure of $25.1 billion was suspect, critics said, because it assumed a 20-year life cycle. The longevity of the Lockheed-Martin-built aircraft, according to the Pentagon, is 36 years.
KPMGs audit, due out next week, has confirmed the contention, long made by critics such as former assistant deputy minister (materiel) Alan Williams, that the F-35 programs real cost would be much higher than any previously stated government estimate, sources say.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page predicted a cost of $30 billion over a 30-year life cycle.
Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose, who took on the F-35 file after Fergusons audit, has been signalling since last spring that she was unhappy with the procurement process. On Nov. 22 in the House of Commons, Ambrose said the government is committed to a full evaluation of all choices, not simply a refresh.
Lawson, in an appearance before the House of Commons defence committee Nov. 29, further opened the door when he confirmed what industry critics have long said: The F-35 is not the only modern fighter with measures to evade radar, though it is considered to be the most advanced in this respect. Is there only one airplane that can meet the standard of stealth thats set out in the statement of requirements? Liberal defence critic John McKay asked.

Lawsons answer: No.
The F-35s unique stealthiness had long been advanced as the single most compelling argument for buying that plane.
Also in the mix, former industry minister David Emerson last week published a report on the aerospace and space sectors, calling on Ottawa to more aggressively press for Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRBs) and In-Service Support (ISS) contracts when inking procurement deals. Lockheed-Martin has in the past been reluctant to hand over its proprietary technology to clients. Industry insiders believe the Emerson report added impetus to the decision to start over.
Boeings Super Hornet, Dassaults Rafale, Saabs Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon, and the F-35, are seen as the leading contenders in any new contest to replace the CF-18 fleet.
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It is better to continue working on Qaher 313 not coping of a defeated project.

MGB ROADSTER · Jan 14, 2014

Maybe he smuggled "blue" movies..

tecoyah · Jan 14, 2014

H.R.A. said: ↑

http://rt.com/usa/f35-data-arrest-iran-555/

Is it true??? hmmm, I think it couldn't be true. F35 is an defeated project. don't you believe? read this article:

It is better to continue working on Qaher 313 not coping of a defeated project.
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If you actually believe the f-35 has been mothballed....it is likely you do not quite understand the way the U.S. military functions.

If you did not want your enemies to know you had an advantage....what would you do?

110db · Jan 14, 2014

Is he part of the Obama administration?

H.R.A. · Jan 14, 2014

tecoyah said: ↑

If you actually believe the f-35 has been mothballed....it is likely you do not quite understand the way the U.S. military functions.

If you did not want your enemies to know you had an advantage....what would you do?
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Yes, maybe you are right, hiding high tech stealth fighter technology from 3 other countries who have this technology in the world. Russia, China and Iran.

Talon · Jan 14, 2014

H.R.A. said: ↑

It is better to continue working on Qaher 313 not coping of a defeated project.
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It would be better to continue working on your madd Photoshop skillz.

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