US panel had found C-130J aircraft with ‘suspect counterfeit’ parts
30-03-14 Staff Reporter Within a couple of days of the crash of C-130J Super Hercules aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) near Gwalior, acquired recently from the United States, theories are doing rounds if it had ‘suspect counterfeit’ parts manufactured in China. The origin of these theories lies in a report of the Committee on Armed Services of the United States Senate dating back to May 2012. In an ‘Inquiry into Counterfeit Electronic Parts in the Department of Defense Supply Chain’ report dating back to May 21, 2012, the US Senate Committee on Armed Services had observed that the ‘suspect counterfeit’ memory chip in C-130J could result in ‘degraded visual imagery on the display, blank screen/loss of display’ and ‘loss of data’. Considering this shocking observation, it might be possible that the C-130J aircraft acquired by the IAF from the US also had ‘suspect counterfeit’ parts manufactured in Shenzhen, China. The C-130J Super Hercules aircraft of the I...