Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier

New submitter cyberjock1980 tips news that an engineer has been caught trying to deliver schematics for an aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government. The 35-year-old civilian received security clearance four months ago after working for the U.S. Navy since February. FBI agents made contact with him, pretending to be with the Egyptian government. They struck a deal to buy documents about the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the first in a new line of improved, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The man sold four CAD drawings for the carrier, and was later seen photographing another set of schematics. A bond hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

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Vulnerability

[quenda]

Plans sold to the Middle East?
The naval architects are now really going to regret putting in that big funnel that leads directly to the main reactor of the carrier.

Re:Vulnerability

[ihtoit]

pfft, it's only six foot across, who the fuck's good enough to hit that?

Re:Vulnerability

[ColdWetDog]

"Many Bothans died to bring us this information."

Re:Vulnerability

[istartedi]

If Egypt has womp rats, we're in trouble.

Re:Vulnerability

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you, I used to bullseye assholes like you in my T-16 back home all the time.

What in the hell was he thinking?

[ericloewe]

So, the moron gets access to classified documents and tries to sell them to the Egyptians?

What was the thought process behind that brilliant idea?

"Hmm, no, the Russians or the Chinese wouldn't want these schematics... The Ehyptians, on the other hand... They're *totally* planning on building some aircraft carriers!"

Re:What in the hell was he thinking?

[Tablizer]

Russians or the Chinese wouldn't want these schematics... The Egyptians, on the other hand... They're *totally* planning on building some aircraft carriers!"

Well, they are into pyramid schemes.

Re:What in the hell was he thinking?

[Garridan]

It's common knowledge that every object ever made has a weak point. A point where even the lightest feather touch causes the entire thing to fall to pieces. Ninjas train den mak, the skill of identifying that point on a live human. Naturally, engineers are highly aware of this. If a den mak master should see even a rough sketch of this aircraft carrier, they could locate the point. Then, a sniper could literally explode any aircraft in the world with a feather-filled hollow point round.

Don't you know anything about modern warfare? Geez. Nerds these days.

Bond, James Bond hearing

[OzPeter]

Not the sort of hearing you want to attend. The spectre of something bad will be hanging over you.

U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford

[RevWaldo]

| 0 | days without an accident.

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Re:The new threat

[ColdWetDog]

Stolen carrier plans + 3D printer = death

Yeah, death to the 3D printer. Or perhaps the FedEx guy trying to deliver 10 billion spools of plastic to your door.

Re: The new threat

[Guppy06]

A plastic battleship would be unstoppable.

Four red pegs should do it.

Re:Entrapping idiot with dubious plot

[morgauxo]

"and they could even let him keep the money. "

Hah ha ha! That's a good one!