Russian hypersonic scientist arrested

 Washington Examiner:

Top Russian hypersonics researcher arrested on 'high treason' charge

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 Shiplyuk specializes in hypersonic technology research, according to TASS, having authored or contributed to more than 90 publications related to hypersonic technology and other engineering subjects, according to a ResearchGate tally. He and Maslov were based in Novosibirsk, Russia. They shared that city with a third Russian scientist, Dmitry Kolker, who was taken from a hospital where he was receiving cancer treatment and then died in custody.

RUSSIA WAGES A PARANOID WAR ON HYPERSONICS SCIENTISTS

“The FSB murdered my father,” the late scientist’s son, Maksim Kolker, wrote on social media last month, referring to the KGB successor agency. “Fully aware of the condition he was in, they dragged him from the hospital. ... They didn’t even allow him to say goodbye to his family.

Kolker, who led a quantum optics laboratory, was accused of collaborating with China, but his family disputed the charges as a trumped-up allegation after his participation at a public conference in China.

“He was working in his country despite many invitations from leading universities and labs to go work abroad,” his cousin, Anton Dianov, said last month. He wanted to work in Russia, he wanted to teach students there. ... These charges are absolutely ridiculous and extremely cruel and unusual to be levied on such a sick man.”

An arrest related to spying for China would seem to attest to the suspicion that persists between the two countries despite their vaunted “no limits” partnership.

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China has also tested hypersonic weapons as has the US.  The Russians apparently suspect that China got help from the Russian scientists. 

See, also:

Russian lab head supporting hypersonic missile program held for treason - TASS

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