Reason #49583 for any Russian with a degree to get out of the country.
I feel second-hand embarrassment for journalists, analysts and politicians who, for many years, portrayed Putin as this shrewd master strategist - whereas in reality, he’s merely another brutish, mediocre autocrat, repeating all of the same obvious mistakes similar rulers have made for millennia.
Physics. Stress on hypersonic air frame in atmosphere.
Who is this Physics guy? Arrest him at once!
better yet, let’s throw him out a window and see if he can prove his hypothesis on the way down
I bet the designers of the Armata tank platform are getting worried.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
At least 12 scientists in Russia have been detained in politically motivated arrests linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s much-touted hypersonic missile program, it has been reported.
ITPM director Alexander Shiplyuk and researchers Anatoly Maslov and Valery Zvegintsev were arrested in May 2023, accused of passing secrets to China.
TASS, Russia’s leading news agency, reported that a treason case could be linked to a 2021 publication in an Iranian scientific journal.
He had been arrested in April 2021 and denied charges of passing materials to colleagues in the Netherlands, with whom he collaborated on the HEXAFLY-INT, the world’s first civil hypersonic airliner.
TsNIIMash physicist Vladimir Kudryavtsev faced a treason case, but the 78-year-old died of complications linked to cancer before he could stand trial, Russian media outlet RBC reported.
Another TsNIIMash scientist, Roman Kovalev, was sentenced to seven years in 2020 but released due to ill health and in April 2022 died of cancer, state news agency Interfax reported.
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