![]() ![]() “We know each of them as a patriot and a decent person incapable of committing what they are being suspected of,” the letter said. Their colleagues described them as “brilliant scientists” whose “competences and professional reputation would allow them to find well-paid and prestigious jobs abroad” if they wanted to. The arrest of Mr Zvegintsev was not previously reported. A third aerodynamics scientist, Valery Zvegintsev, was detained last month. In the open letter published on the institute’s website, the scientists urged the government and the Russian public to “defend Russia’s aerodynamics research and save the decades worth of work of Soviet and Russian scientists from the impending collapse”.Īnatoly Maslov, a 76-year old physicist specialising in aerodynamics, and Alexander Shiplyuk, the 56-year old head of Novosibirsk’s hypersonic missile technology lab, were arrested one month apart last summer and have been in jail since. Russian scientists warn of 'impending collapse' ![]() Researchers from the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics warned that the arrests were damaging research into hypersonic technology. ![]() Three leading scientists working on Russia’s hypersonic missile programme in Siberia have been jailed and charged with treason in the past 10 months. ![]() It comes as some of Russia's most vaunted hypersonic missiles have failed to live up to expectations on the battlefield, with Ukraine shooting down at least half a dozen "unstoppable" Kinzhal missiles in recent weeks. ![]()
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