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Source: The Moscow Times
Details: It is reported that on Tuesday, May 16, ITAM employees published an open letter in which they announced the arrest on suspicion of treason Valery Zvegintsev, Doctor of Technical Sciences and chief researcher, who founded the high-velocity aerogasdynamics laboratory at the institute.
Since April 7, Zvegintsev has been under house arrest. Its immediate supervisor, director of ITAM Alexander Shiplyuk, was placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in August last year, a few days after the arrest of chief researcher Anatoly Maslov. Both were charged under the same article - 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Treason." Maslov was suspected of transferring data related to hypersonic technologies to China.
Shiplyuk and Maslov have been working on hypersonic missiles for over 10 years. They presented the experimental design of such weapons back in 2012 at a scientific seminar in France. Four years later, a work jointly authored by two scientists appeared on aerodynamic research at hypersonic speeds.
Shiplyuk has also been involved in the protective coating of hypersonic missiles in recent years.
In total, in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is known for its strong potential in the field of physics and mathematics, 16 people were prosecuted, including the former head, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Aseev. One of the scientists, 54-year-old Dmitry Kolker, head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies at Novosibirsk State University, died in a Moscow pre-trial detention center shortly after being arrested by the FSB.
What came before: On the night of May 16, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 18 missiles of various types, including six hypersonic Kinzhals. The Ukrainian air defense system shot them all down.
A few days before that, the military destroyed another "Dagger" on approach to Kyiv.
Recall: President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of hypersonic weapons in Russia in 2018. In particular, he boasted of the Zircon, Avangard and Kinzhal missiles.
Putin assured that any air defense was powerless against the "Dagger".
