Seized MCTs

"The Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) masquerades as a civilian flight-training academy when in fact it is a significant enabler of the Chinese air and naval forces and a pipeline for transferring NATO aviation expertise, operational knowledge, and restricted technology directly to the People's Liberation Army."

"The MCTs' layout was modelled after the P-8 Poseidon, which is manufactured by Boeing and serves as the US' primary anti-submarine warfare maritime patrol aircraft. The MCTs were designed to run software specially designed by TFASA for Project Elgar. The software used a basic flight simulator program designed and marketed by a US company, which TFASA software engineers then enhanced using technical data relating to Western anti-submarine warfare aircraft, including the P-8 Poseidon. Former NATO aviators with training in anti-submarine warfare techniques were part of TFASA's Project Elgar team."

"This interdiction is the latest instance implicating TFASA in its role as a primary trainer of the PLA. In June 2023, the Department of Commerce added TFASA and numerous of its subsidiaries and affiliates in South Africa and elsewhere to the Entity List "for providing training to Chinese military pilots using Western and NATO sources," which the Department of Commerce noted was "contrary to US national security and foreign policy interests."

Former USMC pilot Daniel Duggan appealed his extradition from Australia to the US over allegations that he illegally trained Chinese military aviators more than a decade ago. Duggan is accused of training Chinese military pilots while working as an instructor for the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) in 2012.

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China has the third most powerful military in the world according to the Global Firepower Index (GFI). Besides spending money on R & D, Beijing also steals technology at an industrial scale, saving them billions of dollars in costs. Treacherous collaborators and spies in the West are selling out their countries and fellow soldiers for 30 pieces of silver in the event of a future conflict with China over Taiwan, Japan, the Koreas, or the Philippines.

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USMC Pilot Trained PLA

Russian and Chinese attack submarines began conducting joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean last year.