{"id":972,"date":"2020-12-04T01:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=131953"},"modified":"2020-12-04T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:07:46","slug":"russia-arrests-hypersonic-aircraft-scientist-for-high-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/04\/russia-arrests-hypersonic-aircraft-scientist-for-high-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Arrests Hypersonic Aircraft Scientist For High Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/e6335c46-5a0d-4314-8dec-0b7aa41ff73f_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a physicist specializing in hypersonic aircraft on suspicion of high treason.<\/p>\n<p>Anatoly Gubanov took part in international conferences and projects involving hydrogen-powered hypersonic aircraft, Interfax news agency reported on December 3, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the investigation, Gubanov handed over secret aviation development data abroad,&#8221; TASS news agency reported, citing another source.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door court ordered Gubanov to be held in detention until February.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist is said to be a lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Russia views hypersonic aircraft and missiles as providing a strategically important military advantage.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Russian military said it had successfully test-launched a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile that flew more than eight times the speed of sound, in what President Vladimir Putin hailed as a \u201cbig event\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\"><\/h6>\n<p>With reporting by RFE\/RL&#8217;s Russian Service, dpa, TASS, and Interfax.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/04\/russia-arrests-hypersonic-aircraft-scientist-for-high-treason\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a physicist specializing in hypersonic aircraft on suspicion of high treason. Anatoly Gubanov took part in international conferences and projects\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}