treason?
Russian rocket scientist arrested - third alleged saboteur in just a week
Created: 08/10/2022 05:43
By: Marcus Giebel
Rocket launch: The warhead of the hypersonic rocket Avangard was tested here.
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Vladimir Putin has his own ways of getting subordinates to line up.
However, this does not seem to have caught on with some scientists.
Have you betrayed your country?
Munich - Vladimir Putin is already busy enough with the Ukraine war.
The invasion of the neighboring country has required the Kremlin chief's full attention for months.
Since he can not use secondary theaters.
Least of all in their own, so vast country.
But now, of all times, the devastating news is increasing: Several scientists are said to have betrayed Russia and thus Putin.
In the meantime, the third suspected saboteur has been exposed within a few weeks.
The Russian news agency
Tass
reported that with Dr.
Alexander Shiplyuk, Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was arrested.
According to Vasily Fomin, the scientific director of the institute, he is accused of high treason.
He also referred to the case of Anatoly Maslow, who was arrested on June 27th.
The research director of the institute is accused of having transmitted state secrets in connection with hypersonic missiles.
The case is being investigated by the Federal Security Service of Russia.
Betrayal of Russia and Putin?
Pre-trial detention in a former secret service torture facility
According to Fomin, Shiplyuk was transferred to Moscow's Lefortovo detention center, where Maslow is also said to be held.
The former torture facility of the Soviet secret services is now used as a detention center.
The detainee specializes in the high-speed dynamics of aerogas and experimental research into gas flows.
His research interests would include experimental aerothermal dynamics of hypersonic aircraft.
Three days after Maslow, Dmitri Kolker from the Laser Physics Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was also arrested.
According to the Reuters
news agency
, the researcher was accused of collaborating with Chinese security services.
He suffered from stage four cancer and died while being transferred from a private hospital to Lefortovo on July 2.
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Putin and the hypersonic missile: Kremlin boss calls Avangard "the absolute weapon"
Like the giant empire and the USA, Russia is currently working on the development of hypersonic glide missiles.
Putin presented the Avangard type to the public in March 2018.
According to the Kremlin boss, this missile is "practically invulnerable" to Western air defense systems, and he considers it "the absolute weapon".
It went into operation at the end of 2019, is said to have a range of 4000 kilometers and can reach 20 times the speed of sound.
At the time, Putin stressed that he could not imagine that another country would have such a weapon in the coming years.
He may have reckoned without his own scientists.
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