China Wants Weapons Whizzes
Forget buying arms -- the real way to develop your military is buying arms designers.
The seems to be the verdict of China's People's Liberation Army, anyway.
Remember the Australian Metal Storm system? You know, the one that fires more than a million rounds a minute? You might remember Sharon Weinberger used it last month as an illustrative example of her new Stupid Weapons Score Card. Presumably it scores pretty high on the scale…
Well, I guess the Chinese Government disagrees with that assessment, since they reportedly offered the system’s designer more than $100 million dollars to move to Beijing, after repeated attempts to by various pieces of equipment [and after Al-Qaeda just put out a recruiting call to all nuclear scientists with a jihadist bent -- ed]. It’s hard to understand why he didn’t head north to the Middle Kingdom after assurances like this: “We don’t need any Metal Storm weapons, we don’t need any of the paperwork, none of that. What we want is you.”
If nothing else, I guess it’s good to be wanted.
-- Matthew Tompkins
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china needs to take a hike they just steal all their ideas or equipment from everyone else. china does not need metal storm they need to go build their own stuff. china even copied a whole street from london england including the buisnesses and got a bunch of people upset for using their buisness trademarks without their permission. china is a wanna be superpower plain and simple.
Posted by: beavis at October 30, 2007 08:59 PM