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F-35 and F-22 Stealth Fighter Engines Targeted
Wendell Minnick
TAIPEI — A US federal jury in Florida has convicted Wenxia "Wency" Man of attempting to export defense items to China without a license.
Man, a Chinese national and naturalized US citizen, was arrested in September. She was found guilty June 9 of conspiring to evade “US export laws by agreeing to illegally acquire and send to China fighter jet engines, a highly sophisticated military drone,” said a US Department of Justice news release.
According to the news release, between 2011 and 2013, Man conspired with Xinsheng Zhang, now a “fugitive” living in China, to illegally acquire and export a variety of defense items, including Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 engines for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter; Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines for the F-22 Raptor fighter; General Electric F110-GE-132 engines for the F-16 fighter jet; and the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper/Predator UAV.
Man referred to Zhang as a “technology spy” who worked on behalf of the Chinese military and had a special interest in “stealth technology.”
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