Originally Posted by jamesdevice
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For instance the claim that on the F-16s supplied to Pakistan, each electronic component has a "digital seal" (whats one of them?) which triggers an alarm back in the USA when opened... and that each one has a tracking bug inside to prevent diversion to China.
Agreeing entirely that L Page is a knobber of the 1st order, he could be confusing it with the US DoD's UID, Unique Identification.
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Unique Identification
Unique Identification (UID) is an international standards based approach adopted by the DoD that makes the acquisition, repair, and deployment of items faster and more efficient. This is achieved by: (1) Marking qualifying items with a machine-readable data matrix mark that contains a permanent, globally unique and unambiguous identifier called a Unique Item Identifier (UII), and (2) Capturing specific lifecycle item data for the UII in a centralized database, called the IUID Registry. The result is easier access to authoritative information about UII marked items throughout their life in the DoD inventory and Government Furnished Property (GFP) in the hands of contractors. The UII can then be leveraged as a common data key across functionally disparate data systems. Because the mark is machine-readable, human error in data entry is eliminated, significantly improving the accuracy of inventory and acquisition records.
How it works is in;
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It's Loggie thing and wouldn't be easily understandable to a passed-over Corkhead or his stick-monkey informant.
Incidentally, that was a beastly thing to say about WEBF.